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Days of Glory? : Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
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ISBN: 1137542934 1137542942 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire,during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, such images typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.


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Days of Glory? : Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9781137542946 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire,during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, such images typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.

Work, craft and labour: visual representations in changing histories
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ISBN: 075460232X Year: 2000 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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The exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond
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ISBN: 9789004434868 9789004435414 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Work and the image. 2: Work in modern times : visual mediations and social processes
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ISBN: 0754602338 Year: 2000 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,

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The exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond
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ISBN: 9004435417 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, raising questions about the hero's role as model of the princely ruler, and examining how the worthiness of this exemplary type came, in time, to be subverted. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring of Herakles-Hercules in western culture up to the present day, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero's perennial, but changingly problematic, appeal.


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Essays in honour of John White

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Art --- History --- Festschriften --- White, John

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