Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe
This collection conceptualizes the question of rulership in past centuries, incorporating such diverse disciplines as archaeology, art history, history, literature and psychoanalysis to illustrate how kings and queens ruled in Europe from the antiquity to
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Francis K.H. So
Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe
Francis K.H. So Editor
Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe
Editor Francis K.H. So Kaohsiung Medical University Kaohsiung, Taiwan
ISBN 978-1-137-58624-7 ISBN 978-1-137-58381-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58381-9
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PREFACE
The present volume is an outgrowth of the 8th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies held at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan on October 24–25, 2014. The theme of the conference was “Ideas of Rulership: Kings and Queens in Elite and Popular Cultures.” As can be expected, there was a wide range of papers and presentations spanning a huge time line. Most chapters collected here have been presented at the conference, and afterward, in response to the Call for Papers, were screened, reviewed and revised. We are grateful that the anonymous external reviewers of Palgrave Macmillan lent their support to this project. One special feature of the present Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe is that, centering on the same theme, the chapters have multifarious contents, covering various disciplines, transnational in judgmental perspectives, multidimensional in interpretation and cross-cultural in synthetic application. We have very conventional approach as well as contemporary voguish social critique and analysis. While the focus has been on the historical past of the West, during the discussion, some classic works inevitably become the popular basis for explication. Much as there are some common concerns in investigation, there are also some subtle Eas
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