These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France.
This classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Natalie
In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things
In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in ear