Louis XIV and the parlements

Louis XIV and the parlementsThe first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and all the provincial tribunals, calling into question current revisionist understanding of Louis XIV.

The book proceeds towards the organising of a theoretical framework

In this theoretical survey

with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon

where artists are negotiating the tension between global cosmopolitanism and national self-enfranchisement

national and identity in the long nineteenth century

Howard Barker Interviews 1980–2010 covers his entire career and gives a strong sense of the life and work of this innovative dramatist

It contextualises the consort’s place within the wider socio-political environment of the Stuart courts and provides a comprehensive understanding of her personal iconography

all while maintaining the integrity of the original book

and surveying a vast range of contemporary sources

Offers a fresh way of thinking about Gothic lineages and histories

as well as ways of thinking about sexuality and gender

Theorists necessarily tackle this fundamental question in order to explain a number of puzzling issues including the origins of style