The art of disillusionment : the patronage of Mateo Vázquez de Leca -- The piety of powerful neighbors : the renovation of Santa María la Blanca -- A temporary triumph : the Seville Cathedral's festival for San Fernando -- The nobility of charity : the church and hospital of the…
What is baroque music? -- Technical features of baroque music -- Opera's beginnings -- Music and religion to the end of the Thirty Years' War -- Instrumental music -- Opera in Italy, 1637-1680 -- Church, state, and spectacle : music under Louis XIV -- Restoration England -- Dram…
Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "enthusiasm" in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period. "Enthusiasm" at that time was a label ascribed t…
