The Art of Private Life. The Age of Louis XIV
The Art of Private Life. The Age of Louis XIV
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There is no indisputable evidence that Louis XIV ever uttered the famous phrase “I am the State.” However, everything we know about the reign and personality of the “sun king” involuntarily makes us perceive these words as a motto truly worthy of that brilliant and strict era of the absolute monarchy.
The book of the cultural historian Professor Maria Neklyudova is devoted to an amazing phenomenon: in those days when all of France lived, obeying the will of the king, the concept of private life appears in French society, not subject to the influence of the sovereign and state interests. This is primarily reflected in secular literature.
This book is not about how Louis XIV lived, although, of course, the works of the authors of the seventeenth century can be considered as sources of culture of everyday life. The book is mainly devoted to how the idea of the private space of feeling and thought was formed in the minds of the subjects of the “sun king”, as well as how the idea of the right of the artist and thinker to declare them publicly was born.
This fascinatingly written study is a true storehouse of information not only about the worldview of the era, but also about the literature of the seventeenth century, so it is not surprising that, first published in 2008, the book “The Art of Private Life”. The century of Louis XIV became a bibliographic rarity.
The book of the cultural historian Professor Maria Neklyudova is devoted to an amazing phenomenon: in those days when all of France lived, obeying the will of the king, the concept of private life appears in French society, not subject to the influence of the sovereign and state interests. This is primarily reflected in secular literature.
This book is not about how Louis XIV lived, although, of course, the works of the authors of the seventeenth century can be considered as sources of culture of everyday life. The book is mainly devoted to how the idea of the private space of feeling and thought was formed in the minds of the subjects of the “sun king”, as well as how the idea of the right of the artist and thinker to declare them publicly was born.
This fascinatingly written study is a true storehouse of information not only about the worldview of the era, but also about the literature of the seventeenth century, so it is not surprising that, first published in 2008, the book “The Art of Private Life”. The century of Louis XIV became a bibliographic rarity.
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