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"This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444; including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poit…
Gary Gutting tells the story of the remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France in the last four decades of the 20th century. He examines what it was to 'do philosophy', what this achieved, and how it differs from the Anglophone tradition. His key theme is that French philoso…
Frankrike 1939: I den stille og rolige landsbyen Carriveau tar Vianne Mauriac farvel med mannen Antione, som må ut å kjempe i fronten. Da tyskerne okkuperer Frankrike får Vianne selskap og hjelp på gården av søsteren Isabelle, som opprinnelig bor i Paris. Vianne og Isabelle er s…
"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"--
France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and ideas. In the halls in Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a struggle was being waged over the question of ownership - of property, of position, even of perso…
Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in th…