Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII: Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

by Peter Bennett

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What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII's grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as 'sounding liturgy' contribute to the wider discourse on absolutism and 'the arts' in early modern France? Taking the scholarship of the so-called 'ceremonialists' as a point of departure, Peter Bennett engages with Weber's seminal formulation of power to consider the contexts in which liturgy, music and ceremonial legitimated...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1108822436

ISBN13:9781108822435

Release Date:December 2023

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:338 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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