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The Book of the Courtier Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Book of the Courtier book written by Baldassarre Castiglione and published by with total hardcover pages 324 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck Book PDF/Epub Download

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which, following Castiglione, model the conduct of the ideal courtier or elite social conduct more generally; and those belonging to the established tradition of debates about the condition of nobility –how far it is genetically inherited and how far a function of excelling moral and social behaviour. Van Dyck is seen as contributing to these discussions through the language of pictorial art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, early modern history and Renaissance studies.

Courtiers Book PDF/Epub Download

In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives.Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.An eye-opening portrait of a group of royal servants, Courtiers also throws new light on the dramatic life of George II and Queen Caroline at Kensington Palace.

The Anti courtier Trend in Sixteenth Century French Literature Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Anti courtier Trend in Sixteenth Century French Literature book written by Pauline M. Smith and published by Librairie Droz with total hardcover pages 238 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The humorous courtier Book PDF/Epub Download

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The Works of William Shakespeare Cymbeline Book PDF/Epub Download

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The Works of William Shakespeare Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Works of William Shakespeare book written by William Shakespeare and published by with total hardcover pages 712 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

Of Courtiers and Kings Book PDF/Epub Download

Holm’s book is an innovative approach to the biblical Book of Daniel. It places Daniel against the background of story-collections, an ancient genre that began in Egypt in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. This work focuses on Daniel 6–4 and provides detailed comparisons with specific bodies of story-collections and other related material from the Ancient Near East. In this regard, special attention is given to Egyptian court tales, a large corpus mostly neglected by previous biblical scholars. Thus, this book brings new evidence and fresh insights to the field of Daniel studies, which in recent years has generated constant interest, especially as it pertains to textual issues and literary matters. Setting Daniel against an explicit definition of the story-collection genre redefines a vast array of questions concerning textual criticism, compositional history, and the overall nature of the book. For instance, the divergent texts of the narrative parts of Daniel (the Masoretic text and the Greek editions in Theodotion and the Septuagint) now need to be described in part as variant editions, or tellings, of a common core material, rather than as translations of older written texts with clearly traceable genealogies. When Daniel is studied in the context of story-collections and kindred compositions from the Ancient Near Eastern and neighboring literatures, new light is shed on the literary traditions and processes from which the Daniel stories arose. There are a greater number of court tales and cycles than previously recognized, as in the case of Qumran but also the Egypt Demotic corpus. The detailed discussion of all these materials allows us to appreciate the Book of Daniel in a much wider literary milieu and it furthers our understanding of the history of its composition and early transmission.

Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy Book PDF/Epub Download

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of biography, gender, genre, and the varied roles of the courtier, expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in writing about gender, stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance.

Works Book PDF/Epub Download

Download Works book written by William Shakespeare and published by with total hardcover pages 796 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The Works of William Shakespeare King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Works of William Shakespeare King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline book written by William Shakespeare and published by with total hardcover pages 794 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The Courtiers Book PDF/Epub Download

An 18th-century portrait of the palace most recognized as an official home of several British royal family members focuses on the Hanover family during the reigns of George I and II, describing the intrigue, ostentatious fashions and politicking that marked court life. By the author of Cavalier.

The Courtier of the Days of Charles II Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Courtier of the Days of Charles II book written by Catherine Grace Frances Gore and published by with total hardcover pages 306 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The courtier of the days of Charles ii with other tales By the author of Mrs Armytage Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The courtier of the days of Charles ii with other tales By the author of Mrs Armytage book written by Catherine Grace F. Gore and published by with total hardcover pages 304 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The Courtier and the Governor Book PDF/Epub Download

The Nehemiah Memoir, the narrative of the royal cupbearer sent to rebuild Jerusalem, is central to Ezra-Nehemiah's account of Persian Judah. Yet its emphasis on one individual's efforts makes it a text that ill-fits the book's story of a communal restoration. Sean Burt analyzes the nature of this curious text through the lens of genre criticism and identifies the impact of its use of genres on its early reception in Ezra-Nehemiah. Drawing upon contemporary theorists of literary genre, within the field of biblical studies and beyond, he builds an understanding of genre capable of addressing both its flexibility and its necessarily historical horizon. Burt argues that the Nehemiah Memoir makes use of two ancient genres: the novelistic court tale (e.g. Esther, Ahiqar, and others) and the "official memorial," or "biographical" genre used across the ancient Near East by kings and other governmental officials for individual commemoration. This study contends that the narrative subtly shifts genres as it unfolds, from court tale to memorial. Nehemiah the courtier becomes Nehemiah the governor. While these genres reveal an affinity to one another, they also highlight a central contradiction in the narrative's portrait of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is, like the people of Jerusalem, beholden to the whims of a foreign ruler, but he also simultaneously represents Persia's power over Jerusalem. Burt concludes that the Nehemiah Memoir's combination of these two ultimately incommensurate genres can account for how the writers of Ezra-Nehemiah modified and corrected Nehemiah's problematic story to integrate it into Ezra-Nehemiah's vision of a holistic restoration enacted by a unified people.

The Courtier of the Days of Charles II Etc Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Courtier of the Days of Charles II Etc book written by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) and published by with total hardcover pages 378 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The Courtier of the Days of Charles II Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The Courtier of the Days of Charles II book written by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) and published by with total hardcover pages 376 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The courtier of the days of Charles II The leper house in Janval The household hospital Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The courtier of the days of Charles II The leper house in Janval The household hospital book written by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) and published by with total hardcover pages . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

The gyptian Courtier Delivered in Two Sermons Etc Book PDF/Epub Download

Download The gyptian Courtier Delivered in Two Sermons Etc book written by Richard Thornton (Fellow of Lincoln College.) and published by with total hardcover pages 74 . Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, read book directly with any devices anywhere and anytime.

Galileo Courtier Book PDF/Epub Download

Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science—the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusions. Galileo, Courtier is a fascinating cultural and social history of science highlighting the workings of power, patronage, and credibility in the development of science.

The Works of John Knox Volumes 1 and 2 History of the Reformation in Scotland Book PDF/Epub Download

John Knox (1514-1572) was more a reformer of the Scottish Kirk than he was a systematic theologian, as his collected works will attest. Knox had a profound influence upon theological and ecclesiological developments in Scotland both purely by the force of his personality and by the role he played in shaping the Scots Confession and the Book of Common Order. Knox was an ordained priest and served as a tutor prior to his conversion to Protestantism. Volumes One and Two: Knox's famous 'History of the Reformation in Scotland'. Apologetics as much as history, 'History of the Reformation in Scotland' was immediately seized and suppressed when it initially appeared, yet it has remained available in various editions for over 400 years. Volume Three: 'Earliest Writings', 1548-1554 Volume Four: 'Writings from Frankfurt and Geneva'. These writings in exile include Knox's famous 'First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women', his violent diatribe against Mary of Guise. Volume Five: 'On Predestination' and other writings. 'On Predestination, in Answer to the Cavillations by an Anabaptist' is Knox's longest theological work and presents a position of rigid predestinationism. Volume Six: Letters, Prayer, and other shorter writings with a sketch of his life.