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Le corps de la reine est celui d'Élisabeth de Valois, fille d'Henri II et de Catherine de Médicis, qui fut princesse de France puis reine d'Espagne de 1559 jusqu'à sa mort en 1568. À partir de sources diverses et originales, Sylvène Édouard propose une biographie du corps de la reine pour démontrer qu'il fut un et politique. En soulignant l'importance du langage des signes corporels dans les cours de France et d'Espagne à la fin de la Renaissance, le sujet se déplace d'une cour à l'autre, où les cultures du corps furent différentes, au point de devenir des frontières symboliques entre ces « nations ». Les signes éloquents du corps majestueux de la reine et son devoir d'enfanter un héritier révèlent aussi, de son baptême à sa mort, une pratique du don, celui de ces corps princiers qui furent éduqués pour se donner pleinement à leur dignité.

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Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, ruled from 1100 to 1135, a time of fundamental change in the Anglo-Norman world. This long-awaited biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, offers a major reassessment of Henry's character and reign. Challenging the dark and dated portrait of the king as brutal, greedy, and repressive, it argues instead that Henry's rule was based on reason and order.C. Warren Hollister points out that Henry laid the foundations for judicial and financial institutions usually attributed to his grandson, Henry II. Royal government was centralized and systematized, leading to firm, stable, and peaceful rule for his subjects in both England and Normandy. By mid-reign Henry I was the most powerful king in Western Europe, and with astute diplomacy, an intelligence network, and strategic marriages of his children (legitimate and illegitimate), he was able to undermine the various coalitions mounted against him. Henry strove throughout his reign to solidify the Anglo-Norman dynasty, and his marriage linked the Normans to the Old English line.Hollister vividly describes Henry's life and reign, places them against the political background of the time, and provides analytical studies of the king and his magnates, the royal administration, and relations between king and church. The resulting volume is one that will be welcomed by students and general readers alike.

Rois et souverains --- HISTORY / General. --- Biographies --- Grande-Bretagne. --- Henry --- Great Britain --- History --- Kings and rulers

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« En ma fin est mon commencement »… dernières paroles attribuées à Marie Stuart, au matin de son exécution le 7 février 1587, qui furent immédiatement retranscrites par Adam Blackwood dans le Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse publié la même année. Quarante ans plus tard, c'était au tour de Charles Ier de monter sur l'échafaud pour être décapité à la hache, devant la foule rassemblée à Whitehall. En France, le supplice de Louis XVI et de Marie-Antoinette, les 21 janvier et 16 octobre 1793, se fit lui aussi à la suite d'un procès et en place publique. D'autres princes, érigés en ennemis publics, furent encore exécutés pour abattre leur pouvoir jusque dans sa symbolique, comme Maximilien d'Autriche au Mexique ou encore le tsar Nicolas II. Leur mort, préméditée et largement informée, a pu apparaître comme la condition nécessaire à l'affermissement d'un nouveau régime ou d'une nouvelle dynastie. Pourtant, comme l'écrivait Olympe de Gouges à la veille du procès de Louis XVI, « il ne suffit pas de faire tomber la tête d'un roi pour le tuer, il vit encore longtemps après sa mort ». Le condamné est en effet considéré comme un authentique martyr par les nostalgiques de l'ordre ancien. Mué en icône partisane, symbole fédérateur d'une opposition parfois divisée, le souvenir de son sacrifice a permis et permet encore de conserver et illustrer une tradition, tout en participant à la délégitimation des institutions politiques fondées sur le régicide. Néanmoins, tous les princes martyrs ont, à un moment ou à un autre, fini par devenir des objets mémoriels gênants, témoins d'une guerre civile que l'on préfère oublier ou dépasser, même si de persévérants thuriféraires entretiennent toujours leur culte, que ce soit par espérance providentialiste ou par simple fidélité désabusée.

Rois martyrs --- Louis XVI, roi de France --- Charles I, roi de France --- Marie Stuart --- Maximilien, empereur du Mexique --- Marie-Antoinette, reine de France --- Nicolas II tsar de Russie --- History --- régicide --- rois et souverains --- martyrs --- culte

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Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees of autonomy until the disintegration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their pre-colonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks ground in its integration of political and economic developments in the major princely states with the shifting relationships between the princes and the British. It represents a major contribution, both to British imperial history in its analysis of the theory and practice of indirect rule, and to modern South Asian history, as a portrait of the princes as politicians and patrons of the arts.

India --- Inde --- Kings and rulers --- History --- Politics and government --- Rois et souverains --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- Kings and rulers. --- History.

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The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

Renaissance --- Europe --- Kings and rulers --- Historiography --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- Humanists --- Rois et souverains --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- Humanistes --- History --- Histoire --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Historiographie --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- Congrès --- History. --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Renaissance humanism. --- biography. --- epic. --- historiography.