The Centre And The Margins In Eighteenth Century British And Italian Cultures
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The Centre And The Margins In Eighteenth Century British And Italian Cultures
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Author : Lia Guerra
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-18
The Centre And The Margins In Eighteenth Century British And Italian Cultures written by Lia Guerra and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-18 with History categories.
The relationship between the cultural Centre and cultural Margins has fascinated scholars for generations. Who, or what, determines what shall constitute the 'Centre' of a culture, its sacred and canonical forms and substance, and what the Margins? There are significant examples of the Margins of one generation moving to become the Centre of another. These are more than mere shifts of fashion and represent nothing less than a seismic cultural shift. How, and in what circumstances, can such a ...
The Place Of The Social Margins 1350 1750
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Author : Andrew Spicer
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-08-12
The Place Of The Social Margins 1350 1750 written by Andrew Spicer and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-12 with History categories.
This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society. It explores how marginal identity was formed, perceived and represented in Britain and Europe during the medieval and early modern periods. It illustrates that the identities of marginal groups were shaped by their place within primarily urban communities, both in terms of their socio-economic status and the spaces in which they lived and worked. Some of these groups – such as executioners, prostitutes, pedlars and slaves – performed a significant social and economic function but on the basis of this were stigmatized by other townspeople. Language was used to control and limit the activities of others within society such as single women and foreigners, as well as the victims of sexual crimes. For many, such as lepers and the disabled, marginal status could be ambiguous, cyclical or short-lived and affected by key religious, political and economic events. Traditional histories have often considered these groups in isolation. Based on new research, a series of case studies from Britain and across Europe illustrate and provide important insights into the problems faced by these marginal groups and the ways in which medieval and early modern communities were shaped and developed.
Politics And Culture In 18th Century Anglo Italian Encounters
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Author : Lidia De Michelis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-04
Politics And Culture In 18th Century Anglo Italian Encounters written by Lidia De Michelis and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with History categories.
This collection addresses Anglo-Italian influences, correspondences and relationships through the lens of an expansive notion of eighteenth-century political history, explored in its fecund dialogue with cultural history. Its multifaceted approach fleshes out the idea of the Enlightenment community of people linking and sharing different forms and structures of knowledge into a comprehensive picture of the Age of Reason. This book probes fields of great relevance for the cultural interpretation of historical experience, and composes a lively, and as yet unexplored, map of an interconnected European world. Anglo-Italian encounters are explored here primarily through the interweaving of political and cultural history, adding a valuable cog to contemporary insight into the cosmopolitan nature of Enlightenment Europe. The essays here range in scope from the public economy and international trade to finance, moral philosophy, the ethics and politics of translation, travel, the cosmopolitan impact of Italian music and taste, and the art of gardening.
Architecture And Urbanism In The French Atlantic Empire
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Author : Gauvin Alexander Bailey
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-06-06
Architecture And Urbanism In The French Atlantic Empire written by Gauvin Alexander Bailey and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-06 with Architecture categories.
Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and the structures and designs from this period that still remain, its colonial building program has never been considered on a hemispheric scale. Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings, photographic field surveys, and extensive archival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on the French state's and the Catholic Church's ideals and motivations for their urban and architectural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail, Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world that has been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires – from Cap-François (now Cap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces in the styles of Louis XV and formal gardens patterned after Versailles, to failed utopian cities like Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated with examples of grand buildings, churches, and gardens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this volume also brings to life the architects who built these structures, not only French military engineers and white civilian builders, but also the free people of colour and slaves who contributed so much to the tropical colonies. Taking readers on a historical tour through the striking landmarks of the French colonial landscape, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire presents a sweeping panorama of an entire hemisphere of architecture and its legacy.
Classical Art
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Author : Caroline Vout
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-29
Classical Art written by Caroline Vout and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with Art categories.
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.
2013
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Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-11-20
2013 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with History categories.
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
Italy S Margins
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Author : David Forgacs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Italy S Margins written by David Forgacs and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with History categories.
Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed.
Translating Italy For The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Mirella Agorni
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Translating Italy For The Eighteenth Century written by Mirella Agorni and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Translating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators, such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a 'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige. Another genre increasingly accessible to women, namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy. Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society to take shape.
The Castrato And His Wife
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Author : Helen Berry
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-09-22
The Castrato And His Wife written by Helen Berry and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-22 with Music categories.
The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato. Women flocked to his concerts and found him irresistible. His singing pupil, Dorothea Maunsell, a teenage girl from a genteel Irish family, eloped with him. There was a huge scandal; her father persecuted them mercilessly. Tenducci's wife joined him at his concerts, achieving a status as a performer she could never have dreamed of as a respectable girl. She also wrote a sensational account of their love affair, an early example of a teenage novel. Embroiled in debt, the Tenduccis fled to Italy, and the marriage collapsed when she fell in love with another man. There followed a highly publicized and unique marriage annulment case in the London courts. Everything hinged on the status of the marriage; whether the husband was capable of consummation, and what exactly had happened to him as a small boy in a remote Italian hill village decades before. Ranging from the salons of princes and the grand opera houses of Europe to the remote hill towns of Tuscany, the unconventional love story of the castrato and his wife affords a fascinating insight into the world of opera and the history of sex and marriage in Georgian Britain, while also exploring questions about the meaning of marriage that continue to resonate in our own time.
Il Vulcano Di Enea
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Author : Gabriele Mulè
language : it
Publisher: Bonfirraro Editore
Release Date : 2019-12-05
Il Vulcano Di Enea written by Gabriele Mulè and has been published by Bonfirraro Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Salisbury, settembre 1765. William Benson Earle e Henry Penruddocke Wyndham sono solo due viaggiatori come tanti. All'orizzonte l'Italia, Roma e le sue grandiose antichità, Napoli e le sepolte rovine di Pompei ed Ercolano. Con un Master of Art a Oxford, gusto per le lettere e le belle arti, orecchio musicale, palato esigente, sono perfettamente equipaggiati per un Grand Tour da manuale. Non sembrerebbero avere esattamente quel che serve per scalare un vulcano alto tre miglia mentre sputa fuoco e fiamme. Eppure, sedotti dal fascino tenebroso del Vesuvio in piena attività, William e Pen si lanceranno con Sir Thomas Worsley nell'imprevisto. Tenteranno un viaggio che ha del favoloso, veleggeranno verso la Sicilia distante e sconosciuta, ne compiranno il periplo sulla rotta di Enea, il mitico eroe virgiliano, scaleranno fino in cima l'Etna in eruzione, proprio mentre esplode in cielo la sua furia, alla mercé di pirati, banditi, notti in bianco e alloggi intollerabili. Nessuno, salutandoli dal molo, ci avrebbe scommesso lo straccio di un penny. Grazie a documenti storici sparsi ai quattro angoli del globo, raccontando le tappe della vita e i grandi avvenimenti vissuti da tre veri gentiluomini inglesi del Settecento europeo, si ricostruisce un viaggio inedito alla scoperta dell'Italia e del paesaggio millenario dell'Etna, frontiera della scienza e dell'estetica, dove, in bilico tra razionalità e meraviglia, cogliere la fuggente bellezza della natura in una delle sue manifestazioni più maestose e incontrollabili.