'The nation-state is the enemy of the baroque.' This is the point
of departure of this radical, even revolutionary, re-examination of
the cultural history of the early-modern world. Drawing on sources
in six languages, many of them hitherto unavailable to the
English-speaking reader, and touching on the visual arts,
architecture, music and literature, this study frees the word
'baroque' from being a term of periodisation into being the
descriptor for a network of circulation of ideas, words, plants,
arts and energies which encompassed the totality of the
early-modern world. This challenging book also forces a
reconsideration of many of the prejudices of the Anglophone
perception of cultural history and in doing so opens to the reader
a world of wonders: the allegorical dramas of Ireland and Belgrade;
the arquebusier angels of Cuzco painting; the operas and festival
music of Bolivia; the vertiginous architectural fantasies of the
Jacobite exiles. -- .
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