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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile.
To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on
its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and
aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the "air
de cour"-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look
into the culture of this itinerant institution.
Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in
projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly
and considers the role of the "air" in defining patronage
hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine
and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship
to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy,
then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of "airs de
cour" printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs,
literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded
vision of French Renaissance culture.
The first book-length examination of the history of "air de cour,"
this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in
French history.
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