Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power

This book radically revises our understanding of the construction of symbolic power in the age of absolutism by examining the fictions that emerge from visual, narrative, and ceremonial representations of (and reactions to) the 1660 marriage of Louis XIV to the Spanish infanta.

Author: Abby E. Zanger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/01/1997
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780804729772