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Author | : Paul Freedman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501772236 |
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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would become modern Spain. In the wake of the dismantling of its autonomy by the eighteenth-century Spanish state, Catalan scholars looked to the region's medieval independence and wealth as a means of maintaining a distinct Catalan identity and resisting Castilian hegemony. Through their writings and archival investigations, Caresmar and the canons at Santa Maria de Bellpuig de les Avellanes, where Caresmar was abbot, laid the foundations for not only the scholarly exploration of the Middle Ages but also the development of Catalan national sentiment. Although the eighteenth century is often regarded as a low point for the Catalan language and culture, The Splendor and Opulence of the Past emphasizes the importance of this period's antiquarians to Catalan projects of modernization and economic progress and links their historiography of the Middle Ages to struggles over Catalonia's relationship to the Spanish state over two centuries.
Author | : Maurice Samuels |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501729837 |
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Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments, Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a vital moment in the cultural history of modernity.
Author | : Hebe Dorsey |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : John BIGLAND |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1804 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew W. Devereux |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501740148 |
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Via rigorous study of the legal arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's expansionary ventures in the Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Andrew Devereux proposes and explores an important yet hitherto unstudied connection between the different rationales that Spanish jurists and theologians developed in the Mediterranean and in the Americas. Devereux describes the ways in which Spaniards conceived of these two theatres of imperial ambition as complementary parts of a whole. At precisely the moment that Spain was establishing its first colonies in the Caribbean, the Crown directed a series of Old World conquests that encompassed the Kingdom of Naples, Navarre, and a string of presidios along the coast of North Africa. Projected conquests in the eastern Mediterranean never took place, but the Crown seriously contemplated assaults on Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Palestine. The Other Side of Empire elucidates the relationship between the legal doctrines on which Spain based its expansionary claims in the Old World and the New. The Other Side of Empire vastly expands our understanding of the ways in which Spaniards, at the dawn of the early modern era, thought about religious and ethnic difference, and how this informed political thought on just war and empire. While focusing on imperial projects in the Mediterranean, it simultaneously presents a novel contextual background for understanding the origins of European colonialism in the Americas.
Author | : John BIGLAND |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1814 |
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Author | : Daniel Leonhard Purdy |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501759752 |
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Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe. Analyzing key German literary texts—theological treatises, imperial histories, tragic dramas, moral philosophies, literary translations, and poetic cycles—Chinese Sympathies traces the paths from baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy, culminating in a secular principle that allowed readers to identify meaningful similarities across culturally diverse literatures based on shared human experiences. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. The open access edition is available at Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author | : Ruben Modigliani |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 2080203657 |
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"From its prominent position on Lake Como, Villa Balbiano radiates a majestic charm emblematic of the most splendid chapter in the history of great villas in the idyllic Italian region. Each successive owner brought new splendor to the villa through additions, new frescoes and statues, and increasingly extensive and sumptuous gardens. The villa's history reached an acme at the end of the eighteenth century, when the enlightened Cardinal Angelo Maria Durini, as master of the house, transformed Villa Balbiano into a crucible of philosophy and art, framed within the villa's archetypical Roman lines. Today, esteemed interior architect Jacques Garcia has undertaken painstaking restoration work that combines a stunning array of precious materials and a worldclass collection of paintings and antique furnishings set against the backdrop of the original design that had been obscured over the centuries. The glorious new restoration inaugurates a new season in the life of the villa in one of the world's most glamorous locations."--
Author | : J.D. Easley |
Publisher | : Waterton Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0990524906 |
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Dregs of poverty, catwalk of opulence, Illusion of Splendor is an epic literary thriller taking the reader on an astonishing journey from the illusion to the heart of splendor. Characters diverse as a West African fisherman, an American college professor, and an Afghan heroin magnate interact in settings as vibrant as Nigeria and Monte-Carlo. The presentation is exotic; the scenes powerful. Driving the story is a turbulent powder-keg of vengeance. Illusion of Splendor begins with the fisherman pursuing terrorists who killed his sister and ends in a spectacular scene of redemption aboard a luxury yacht in Monaco. The story is timely, complex, sophisticated, and thought-provoking; the result of considerable historical research.
Author | : Bonnie Effros |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2018-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501718541 |
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"From 1830, the Roman ruins of North Africa intrigued invading French military officers and became key to the colonial narrative justifying French settlement of North Africa"--