Alessandra Petrina: Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1400s, cultural politics, england, history, humanism, politics, united kingdom
This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI’s minority. Humphrey’s intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke’s own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey’s commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists. Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey’s donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation’s cultural autonomy.
Publisher BRILL, 2004
ISBN 9004137130, 9789004137134
381 pages
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Comment (0)David Harvey: Paris, Capital of Modernity (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1800s, city, culture, france, history, labour, literature, modernity, paris, politics
Collecting David Harvey’s finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.
Publisher Routledge, 2003
ISBN 041594421X, 9780415944212
372 pages
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