Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France(English, Hardcover, Brooks Jeanice)

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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France(English, Hardcover, Brooks Jeanice) is written by Brooks Jeanice and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226075877 (ISBN 10) and 9780226075877 (ISBN 13).

In the late 16th century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song - or the "air de cour" - as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution. Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the "air" in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enchancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of "airs de cour" printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture. The first book-length examination of the history of "air de cour", this work also sheds new light on a formative moment in French history.