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Publisher :AuthorHouse Release Date :2020-02-24 ISBN :1728399041 Pages :338 pages Rating :4.7/5 (283 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Power of Words (2) by Stilovsky:
Download or read book The Power of Words (2) written by Stilovsky and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Literature of all kinds plays such an important place in our lives whether it’s biography, classics, crime or poetry. In this non-fiction volume you will find a mine of facts which will fascinate all who love books. Felix Schrödinger and Pyotr Stilovsky have compiled in this, the fifth volume of the series, a compendium of information that will appeal to all who love language and especially those who seek out knowledge for its own sake.
Publisher :BRILL Release Date :2021-07-05 ISBN :9004461817 Pages :408 pages Rating :4.0/5 (44 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Identities of Catherine de' Medici by Susan Broomhall:
Download or read book The Identities of Catherine de' Medici written by Susan Broomhall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2016-05-12 ISBN :1317059328 Pages :224 pages Rating :4.3/5 (17 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici by Una McIlvenna:
Download or read book Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici written by Una McIlvenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, Una McIlvenna here focuses on representations of the scandals in popular culture and print, and on the collective portrayal of the women in the libelous and often pornographic literature that circulated information about the court. She traces the origins of this material to the all-male intellectual elite of the parlementaires: lawyers and magistrates who expressed their disapproval of Catherine's political and religious decisions through misogynist pamphlets and verse that targeted the women of her entourage. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times that encouraged a collective and universalizing notion of women as sexually voracious, duplicitous and, ultimately, dangerous. In its focus on manuscript and early print culture, and on the transition from a world of orality to one dominated by literacy and textuality, this study has relevance for scholars of literary history, particularly those interested in pamphlet and libel culture.
Publisher :Greenwood Publishing Group Release Date :1999 ISBN :9781573560665 Pages :744 pages Rating :4.5/5 (66 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review World Historical Fiction by Lynda G. Adamson:
Download or read book World Historical Fiction written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: "Based on World historical guide by Daniel D. McGarry and Sarah Harriman White published 1973 by Scarecrow Press. This title annotates 'more than 6000 works ... Primary arrangement is by areas of the world, and then by time periods within each area.'" Booklist.
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2019-12-10 ISBN :1351778110 Pages :298 pages Rating :4.3/5 (517 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe by Adelina Modesti:
Download or read book Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe written by Adelina Modesti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere. Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European 'matronage' and proposes a new matrilineal model of patronage in the early modern period, one in which women become not only the mediators but also the architects of public taste and the transmitters of cultural capital. The book will be the first comprehensive monographic study of this important cultural figure. This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, Renaissance studies and seventeenth-century Italy.
Publisher :Greenwood Publishing Group Release Date :2000 ISBN :157356155X Pages :481 pages Rating :4.5/5 (735 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review To be Continued by Merle Jacob:
Download or read book To be Continued written by Merle Jacob and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Main entries by author, then series. Title and subject index also included.
Publisher :University of Chicago Press Release Date :2008-04-10 ISBN :0226436160 Pages :350 pages Rating :4.2/5 (264 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King:
Download or read book Women of the Renaissance written by Margaret L. King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.
Publisher :Simon and Schuster Release Date :2012-07-03 ISBN :1451686218 Pages :416 pages Rating :4.4/5 (516 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy:
Download or read book Madame Serpent written by Jean Plaidy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Catherine de’ Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Amid the glittering fêtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. Tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes consumed by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn by a Medici heir. . . .
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2014-12-18 ISBN :1317472764 Pages :520 pages Rating :4.3/5 (174 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service by Montgomery Van Wart:
Download or read book Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service written by Montgomery Van Wart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Eminently readible, current, and comprhensive, this acclaimed text sets the standard for instruction in
Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2019-07-02 ISBN :1000021823 Pages :492 pages Rating :4.0/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Catherine de Medici by Jean Heritier:
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Jean Heritier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Originally published in 1968 this book is an unforgettable portrait of an impoverished orphaned daughter of the Medici, pitchforked at the age of fourteen into her royal destiny and having to bear the rivalry of Diane de Poiters and the description ‘the Florentine shopkeeper’ who nevertheless became one of the most powerful characters in the shaping of sixteenth century Europe.
Publisher : Release Date :1859 ISBN : Pages :484 pages Rating :4.A/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review A Decade of Italian Women by Thomas Adolphus Trollope:
Download or read book A Decade of Italian Women written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher : Release Date :1874 ISBN : Pages :652 pages Rating :4.R/5 (5 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The history of Protestantism by James Aitken Wylie:
Download or read book The history of Protestantism written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Dance Today Release Date :2020-01-23 ISBN :1474782353 Pages :33 pages Rating :4.4/5 (747 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Ballet by Rebecca Rissman:
Download or read book Ballet written by Rebecca Rissman and published by Dance Today. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Get to know the steps, performances and dancers who added their signature style to this graceful dance form. From Anna Pavlova to Mikhail Baryshnikov to Misty Copeland, Today's Ballet: More than Pointe Shoes and Pirouettes will have you perfecting your plie, fouette, and arabesque.
Publisher :University of Chicago Press Release Date :2008-09-15 ISBN :0226436330 Pages :208 pages Rating :4.2/5 (264 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Teaching Other Voices by Margaret L. King:
Download or read book Teaching Other Voices written by Margaret L. King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The books in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series chronicle the heretofore neglected stories of women between 1400 and 1700 with the aim of reviving scholarly interest in their thought as expressed in a full range of genres: treatises, orations, and history; lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry; novels and novellas; letters, biography, and autobiography; philosophy and science. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe complements these rich volumes by identifying themes useful in literature, history, religion, women's studies, and introductory humanities courses. The volume's introduction, essays, and suggested course materials are intended as guides for teachers--but will serve the needs of students and scholars as well.
Publisher :Cambridge University Press Release Date :2017-10-05 ISBN :131699161X Pages : pages Rating :4.3/5 (169 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Woman Question in France, 1400–1870 by Karen Offen:
Download or read book The Woman Question in France, 1400–1870 written by Karen Offen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas.
Publisher :John Benjamins Publishing Company Release Date :2015-03-20 ISBN :9027268991 Pages :342 pages Rating :4.0/5 (272 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Temporality in Interaction by Arnulf Deppermann:
Download or read book Temporality in Interaction written by Arnulf Deppermann and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently that research in linguistics has started to take the temporality of linguistic production and reception in interaction into account by studying the real-time and on-line dimension of spoken language. This volume is the first systematic collection of studies exploring temporality in interaction and its theoretical foundations. It brings together researchers focusing on how temporality impinges on the production and interpretation of linguistic structures in interaction and how linguistic resources are designed to deal with the exigencies and potentials of temporality in interaction. The volume provides new insights into the temporal design of a range of heretofore unexplored linguistic phenomena from various languages as well as into the temporal aspects of linguistic structures in embodied interaction.
Publisher : Release Date :1863 ISBN : Pages :1042 pages Rating :4.+/5 (27 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
