Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France : The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321) (Hardcover)

Series information from publisher s website. For her commissioning and perform... Series information from publisher s website. For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous extant late thirteenth-century... more

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries Meredith Martin tells... In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden structures--most famously... more