Death and the crown Margaret Scanlon

Death and the crown Margaret ScanlonLooking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis XVI's reign, including his coronation in June 1775.

Penned by contributors from a range of disciplines

A reconfiguration of modern American history

showing how the legacy of religious intolerance

the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art

simultaneously offering new perspectives on film

the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock

informational

32 col illus

wickedly perceptive and always readable

produced by a variety of different women

A brand new and fully updated edition of this seminal work on archival preservation

ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf