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Some images from France of the 16th & 17th Centuries
Robert Knecht
In
2014 Robert published the first English language biography of Henry
III for 150 years, Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89 (Farnham:
Ashgate, 2014).
David
Walker
In February 2014 the Times Literary Supplement published David's
translation of Gide’s Le Grincheux (‘The Curmudgeon’).
In the same year David published his
first novel, Migrating Voids (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, ISBN
9781499609493).
Sydney
Anglo
In
2011 the Bibliothèque Nationale de France published Sydney's
L'escrime, la danse et l'art de la guerre. Le livre et la
représentation du mouvement.
Margaret McGowan
Margaret has
published the following publications since 2008:
"Ménestrier, maître des spectacles au
théâtre de forme irregulière",
pp. 129-41 in Gérard Sabatier (ed.), Claude-François Ménestrier.
Les Jesuites et le monde des images, Grenoble, Presses
Universitaires, 2009.
"Costumes pour la danse", La Revue de l'art, no. 174, avril
2011, pp. 43-9.
"Ronsard et Primaticcio a Fontainebleau, 1564", p. 181-98, in
Carmelo Occhipinti (ed.), Primatticcio e l'arti alla corte di
Francia, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011.
"A Question of Authenticity. Pierre Matthieu: Creator of Entries and
Historiographer Royal", pp. 245-59, in Marie-Claude Canova-Green,
Jean Andrews with Anne-Marie Wagner (eds.) Writing Royal Entries
in Early Modern Europe, Brepols, 2013.
"Les triomphes de Jason: a Myth renewed in 1613", pp. 463-78 in Sara
Smart and Mara Wade (eds.), The Palatine Wedding, its
celebration and significance, Wolfenbuttel, 2013.
"Lyon: a Centre for Water Celebration", pp. 37-50 in Margaret
Shewring (ed.), Waterborne pageants and Festivities in the
Renaissance, Ashgate, 2013.
Margaret M.McGowan (ed.), Dynastic Marriages. The Celebration
of Habsburg and Bourbon Unions, 1612-1615, Ashgate, 2013.
Annette Tomarken
Together
with Hugh Roberts, Annette has edited the Oeuvrès complètes de
Bruscambille, Paris, Champion, 2012.
She also
gave a talk with Hugh Roberts on "L'Animal le plus parfaict
de la nature: l'androgynie de Bruscambille dans les prologues de
Bruscambille", at a Colloquium in Arras in 2012, forthcoming
with the actes of the conference.
Pauline
Smith
Pauline has published
the following publications since 2000:
2000 "Une édition
unique de la Satyre Menippée et sa postface, la Suitte du Catholicon
d'Espagne', in Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, LXII, 2,
pp. 363-372.
2002, "Simon Goulart et la Satyre Menippée",
in Renaissance Reflections: essays in memory of C.A. Mayer, ed.
P.M. Smith and T. Peach (Paris, Champion, 2002), pp. 228-246.
2007,
with D. Bentley-Cranch, "A New Iconographical Addition to Francis
I's Adoption of the Persona of King David and its Contemporary Literary
Context", in Renaissance Studies, 21, no.5 (2007), pp. 608-624.
2008,
"A Conflict of Interest?". Calvinism and the Satyre Menippée",
in Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-Centry France. Essays
in Honour of Malcolm Quainton, ed. E. Vinestock and D. Foster,
Durham University, Modern Language Series, 2008, pp. 193-214.
2010,
"Drama, Performance and Spectacle in the Medieval City: some
survivals in the Satyre Menippée (1594)", in Performance,
Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City. Essays in Honour of Alan
Hindley, ed. C. Emerson, A. Tudor and M. Lontin, Louvain-Paris-Walpole,
MA, Peeters, 2010, pp. 473-488.
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Henri III Roy
de France et de Pologne
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Trustees of the British Museum
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by Abraham Bosse
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Stage set at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne. The chair indicates
an interior. The characters portrayed show that a comedy is in progress.
They are from left to right: "the watching Frenchman"; the celebrated
comic actors: "wild-faced" Turlupin, "true" Gaulthier, Gros-Guillaume; a
lady; and a Spaniard (identified by his ruff). Turlupin is stealing
Gaultier-Garguille's purse. The Frenchman and lady are dressed in
fashionable contemporary costume. A 1634 engraving by Abraham Bosse
The Metropolitan Museum of Art;
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Watercolour of a ball by Abraham Bosse c. 1602-1604
– 14 February 1676
Kupferstichkabinett,
Berlin - The Yorck Project