Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Regime du corps
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of ......
Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century
Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.
In this book, James H. Rubin explores these conditions and shows how Monets work-said to be a harbinger of abstraction-appeals not only to the eye but also to something deep in modern consciousness. The myth of Impressionism is that it was reviled and misunderstood, but by the 1890s Monet was rich by anyones standards.
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common divisor" are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to ......
The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpetriere School
In this book, Natasha Ruiz-Gomez delves into an extraordinary collection of pathological drawings, photographs, sculptures, and casts created by neurologists at Paris's Hopital de la Salpetriere in the nineteenth century. Led by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and known collectively as the Salpetriere School, these savants-artistes produced ......
Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or pederasty in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. Curated and translated into English here, these remarkable documents allow us to hear the voices of men who desired men and to explore complex questions ......
France's Royal Swedish Regiment in the French and American Revolutions
In 1740, the French King Louis XV granted his Swedish-led forces the title of Royal Swedish Regiment, for which it received the same privileges as all royal regiments including the protection of the king, new flags, and ordinance. Louis XV acted to fulfill a request of King Fredrik I of Sweden and to demonstrate his satisfaction with the great ......
In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents-many of which are published or translated here for the first time-that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, ......
