A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, And Knowledge In Early Modern France - Couverture rigide

Wintroub, Michael

 
9780804748728: A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, And Knowledge In Early Modern France
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0804748721 ISBN 13 : 9780804748728
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

A Savage Mirror is about the New World, royal ritual, and the sensibilities that defined a new class of elites. It takes as its starting point the royal entry of Henri II into Rouen in 1550. By all accounts, this ritual was among the most spectacular ever staged. It included an "exact" replica of a Brazilian village, with fifty "savages" kidnapped from the New World. The book aims to understand what the French made of these Brazilian cannibals, and the significance of putting them in a festival honoring the king. The resulting analysis provides an investigation of France's changing social structure, its religious beliefs, its humanist culture, and its complicated commercial and symbolic relations with the New World. The book will appeal not only to scholars of early modern history, but to those interested in cross-cultural contact, cultural studies, civic ritual, museography, and history of literature, science, religion, art, and anthropology.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Wintroub is a historian of early modern Europe. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804748721
ISBN 13 
9780804748728
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
336
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