Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1282752006
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140082141X
,
9781282752009
,
9781400821419
Inhalt:
From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and misery, Robert Schneider explores how Toulouse's civic and community life was represented in the stagings of various ceremonies. His inquiry is based on the unpublished diaries of Pierre Barthès, a Latin tutor who was both a devout Catholic and a monarchist, and who recorded forty years of public activity in ways that reflected the mounting social
Inhalt:
Cover13; -- Contents13; -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION13; -- CHAPTER ONE The Observer and His Diary -- CHAPTER TWO The City -- CHAPTER THREE Justice in the Streets -- CHAPTER FOUR Public Devotions -- CHAPTER FIVE Political Festivities -- CONCLUSION Thinking about the Ceremonial City13; -- INDEX
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780691034645
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schneider, Robert A Ceremonial City : Toulouse Observed, 1738-1780 Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 ISBN 9780691034645
Sprache:
Englisch
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