Wedding poetry was an important genre in early modern literature and a way to congratulate and praise a newlywed couple on their wedding day. During the first decades of the eighteenth century, war ...emerged as a central topic of wedding poems in the kingdom of Sweden. By applying the concept of repertory poetry, referring to poetry as a system based on the circulation of literary material, I examine how the war was discussed in wedding poems and how poems articulate common understandings and personal experiences of war, military occupation, and life as a refugee.
Polish queen Marie Casimire Sobieska, French by birth, left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the death of her husband king John III and settled in Rome in 1699. Supported by her son, Prince ...Aleksander Sobieski, the queen dowager created at her Roman residence in Palazzo Zuccari one of Rome’s most important opera theatres. She used music and drama to uphold her social status and political plans, satisfy her aesthetic needs, and provide entertainment for the granddaughter under her care, along with her ever more ailing son. This is the first monograph about Sobieska’s music patronage. The book describes works by such eminent artists as Carlo S. Capece, Filippo Juvarra, and Domenico Scarlatti, along with the atmosphere of Rome of that time, the sociopolitical role of the festa, and the music theatre genres it employed.
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was the mastermind behind the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, and a lifelong rival of Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir ...Robert Walpole. He is also known for his political use of history based on the saying of Dionysius of Halicarnassus: 'history is a philosophy teaching by examples'. While much scholarly attention has been paid to Bolingbroke's historical criticism of Walpole's Whig oligarchy, his discussion of European international history has been treated as a mere vindication of the Treaty of Utrecht, thus not meriting further investigation. This article reconstructs Bolingbroke's writings on European politics as a history of British foreign policy. Arguing that his focus was on Britain's role in maintaining the balance of power, this article demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, Bolingbroke attacked the Hanoverian government not for its involvement in European politics per se but for its abandonment of the Old System of William III against France. Bolingbroke believed history was repeating itself. As the Stuarts had helped France achieve hegemony half a century ago, the Hanoverians enabled France to regain supremacy in their pursuit of private interests, re-disrupting the European balance of power.
Late Pleistocene Ice Age spotted hyena remains are described from the “Unicorn holotype skeleton” gypsum karst site Quedlinburg‐Sewecken‐Berge, Germany (Central Europe). The hyena population consists ...of adolescent to late adult individuals (96% of hyena NISP; 15% of megafauna NISP) indicating a commuting den site type. The comparisons to other European bone assemblages support hunting specialization on woolly rhinoceros (19% of NISP) and horses (27% of NISP). Specialization on bovids (Bison/Bos) can be added for this site. The megafauna contain few Eemian warm period remains of a large horse Equus ferus fossilis. Most (95%) of the megafauna is attributed to the Late Pleistocene glacial (Weichselian/Wuermian). Horse bones are dominated by distal leg elements from the smaller Przewalski horses Equus ferus przewalskii (26% of NISP). The Unicorn “holotype” skeleton originates from a composed horse skull, vertebrae and front legs, whereas the elephant remains added to this biologically not valid species must have been a straight‐tusked elephant tusk.
In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on ...literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell's interregnum and Charles II's restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors.
Catalonia has, from the nineteenth century to the present day, promoted a distinct culinary tourism. Travel and tourism practices have, as early as the eighteenth century, worked as powerful agents ...of Spanish nation-building and self-identification. In the case of Catalonia, and Barcelona in particular, gastronomic promotion via touristic forums became a key outlet for the expression of such nationalist sentiment. Tracing the process from the earliest mass-tourism guide-books to Barcelona, passing through the regressive understanding of culinary and broader cultural difference during the Franco dictatorship, this essay recognizes the firm linking of food and Catalan identity. By the 1960s we can identify the reassertion of a Catalan gastronomic identity in the proliferation of gastronomic guides to the region and culinary tourism enterprises such as the recent 'Ruta 1714' campaign. Along the way, this essay examines the role of the Generalitat, the Catalan language, the mining of local history and various touristic entities and gastronomic figures in cementing the identification between Catalonia and gastronomy that has ultimately helped strengthen the region's broader political and cultural recognition abroad.
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