de Gournay

de Gournay
Author: Claud Cecil Gurney
Publsiher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780847867905

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Renowned for its elegant hand-painted wallpapers and textiles, de Gournay creates some of the most beautiful interiors in the world. Celebrated for its hand-painted chinoiserie wallpapers, sumptuous patterns of colorful flora and varied birdlife, the company produces additional collections that explore historical themes, such as nineteenth- century French pastoral scenes or exotic Brazilian landscapes bursting with wildlife. De Gournay also crafts more abstracted designs that fit well with modern interiors. Collaborating with renowned tastemakers from across creative industries, de Gournay works with leading interior designers as well as noted trendsetters such as Kate Moss. This volume showcases de Gournay designs in situ, in beautiful interiors created by top designers in homes from San Francisco and New York to London, Paris, and beyond. The book explores de Gournay interiors in both city and country settings, how to take inspiration from English stately homes, and how custom wallpaper designs are created. Full of inspiring interiors and design ideas, de Gournay is an in-depth look at the stunning creations of one of the most prestigious and influential design houses of today.

Renaissance Women Writers

Renaissance Women Writers
Author: Anne R. Larsen,Colette H. Winn
Publsiher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814324738

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A collective awareness of the determining role of gender marks the essays in this volume, providing fresh insights into the works of Renaissance women writers.

Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works

Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works
Author: Marie le Jars de Gournay
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226305264

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During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period in France. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. Two of these appear here in English for the first time—The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne and The Apology for the Woman Writing. One of the first modern psychological novels, the best-selling Promenade was also the first to explore female sexual feeling. With the autobiographical Apology, Gournay defended every aspect of her life, from her moral conduct to her household management. The book also includes Gournay's last revisions (1641) of her two best-known feminist treatises, The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Complaint. The editors provide a general overview of Gournay's career, as well as individual introductions and extensive annotations for each work.

The Republic of Letters And the Levant

The Republic of Letters And the Levant
Author: Alastair Hamilton,Maurits H. Van Den Boogert,Bart Westerweel
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004147614

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This collection of articles analyses the interests and experiences in the Levant of a number of leading western scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the networks of learned friends throughout Europe with whom they corresponded.

Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France

Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France
Author: Derval Conroy
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781000348927

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This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realised in early modern France, a period and a country which produced some of the earliest theorisations on equality. In so doing, it aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought, and to situate "the woman question" within that history. The eleven chapters in the volume span the fields of political theory, philosophy, literature, history and history of ideas, bringing together literary scholars, historians, philosophers and scholars of political thought, and examining an extensive range of primary sources. Whilst most of the chapters focus on the conceptualisation of a moral, metaphysical or intellectual equality between the sexes, space is also given to concrete examples of a de facto gender equality in operation. The volume is aimed at scholars and graduate students of political thought, history of philosophy, women’s history and gender studies alike. It aims to throw light on the history of Western ideas of equality and difference, questions which continue to preoccupy cultural historians, philosophers, political theorists and feminist critics.

The Battle Abbey Roll

The Battle Abbey Roll
Author: Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1889
Genre: Battle abbey
ISBN: STANFORD:36105014940956

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The medi val nunneries of the county of Somerset and diocese of Bath Wells

The medi  val nunneries of the county of Somerset  and diocese of Bath   Wells
Author: Thomas Hugo
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 728
Release: 1867
Genre: Convents
ISBN: STANFORD:36105036708886

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Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 984
Release: 1861
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN: UOM:39015082067961

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