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

Author/Contributor(s):	Zanger, Abby E
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	11/01/1997
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.