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The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610–1643
Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the whims of Cardinal Richelieu. Seeking to correct this narrative, Marc W. S. Jaffré here offers a comprehensive analysis of the court's institutional, political, social, cultural, ceremonial, and financial development, emphasizing its very wide range of active participants, from the nobility, financiers, merchants, to lower ranking household members. The close study engages with the key issues of Louis's reign: the destabilizing ro...
A Hero of the Air
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Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry
This book details a philosophical approach to Freemasonry and a Freemasonic approach to philosophy. It provides a system of esoteric work, interdisciplinary education, philosophical reflection, and social and political thought, and a method of understanding the reality of the world and the reality of consciousness. The actual state of Freemasonry is overtaken by inherent old conceptions, but this book looks to take Freemasonry from where it is to where it has never been. Thus, it exposes the Ritual of the “Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry,” composed by the author, and it explains the ethos, the structure, and the substantive content of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry, of which the author is the Founder and Grand Master. The book expresses a keen longing for unifying, all-embracing knowledge and for instituting a Freemasonic system that creates, unites, and supports polymaths for the sake of knowledge and a better world order. As such, it presents a creative synthesis between Western esotericism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, political theory, political economy, mathematics, physics, and biology.
The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 1572-1661
The role of the navy as an instrument of royal power in France, C16/C17, with a reappraisal of Richelieu's performance as Grand-Master of Navigation.
Holbein's "Ambassadors"
The ambassadors dealt with are Jean de Dinteville, and Georges de Selve.
