Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII: Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

by Peter Bennett

What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII's grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as 'sounding liturgy' contribute to the wider discourse on absolutism and 'the arts' in early modern France? Taking the scholarship of the so-called 'ceremonialists' as a point of departure, Peter Bennett engages with Weber's seminal formulation of power to consider the contexts in which liturgy, music and ceremonial legitimated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108830633
• ISBN13: 9781108830638
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"