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  • Visual Translation

    Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists

    by Anne D. Hedeman ...
    Series series The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
    Visual Translation breaks new ground in the study of French manuscripts, contributing to the fields of French humanism, textual translation, and the reception of the classical tradition in the first half of the fifteenth century.While the prominence and quality of illustrations in French manuscripts have attracted attention, their images have rarely been studied systematically as components of ... Read more

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  • Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France

    Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

    Edited by Rosalind Brown-Grant, Anne D. Hedeman, Bernard Ribémont ...
    Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. Analysing texts ranging from romances, political allegories, chivalric biographies, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • A Brief History of the Knights Templar

    by James Burnes ...
    It was in the year 1119, the twentieth of the Christian dominion in Syria, that nine pious and valiant Knights, the greater part of whom had been the companions of Godfrey de Bouillon, formed themselves into an association, the object of which was to protect and defend Pilgrims on their visits to the holy places. These Knights, of whom the two chief were Hugo de Payens and Godfrey de St. Omer, ... Read more

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  • Montaigne

    A Life

    by Philippe Desan ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305

    by Jean Dunbabin ...
    Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle Ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • A Brief History of the Knights Templar

    by James Burnes ...
    It was in the year 1119, the twentieth of the Christian dominion in Syria, that nine pious and valiant Knights, the greater part of whom had been the companions of Godfrey de Bouillon, formed themselves into an association, the object of which was to protect and defend Pilgrims on their visits to the holy places. These Knights, of whom the two chief were Hugo de Payens and Godfrey de St. Omer, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre

    The mysteries of a crime of state

    by Arlette Jouanna ...
    Translated by Joseph Bergin ...
    On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France’s Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Royal Touch (Routledge Revivals)

    Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Translated by J. Anderson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Selected Works of Marc Bloch
    First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history, both France and England claimed to hold kings with healing powers who, by their touch, could cure people from all strands of society from illness and disease. Indeed, the idea of royalty as something miraculous and sacred was common to the whole of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask

    A Historical Detective Story

    by Paul Sonnino ...
    The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask triumphantly solves an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers to this day. Who was the man who was rumored to have been kept in prison and treated royally during much of the reign of Louis XIV while being forced to wear an iron mask? Could he possibly have been the twin brother of the Sun King? Like ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War

    by Craig Taylor ...
    Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and soldiers. They questioned when knights and men-at-arms could ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Aspiration, Representation and Memory

    The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688

    Edited by Jessica Munns, Penny Richards, Jonathan W. Spangler ...
    Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor sovereign ... Read more

    $61.99 USD