Franska revolutionen

Den franska revolutionen slet upp den tusenåriga franska monarkin med rötterna. Med denna omvälvning förändrades Frankrike i grunden. I denna berättelse om det pånyttfödda …

‘The Gods Are Athirst’ (1912) is Nobel laureate Anatole France’s captivating fictional reimagining of the bloody events of the French Revolution. Gamelin, a young idealistic …

Originally published in 1975. The French Revolution generated a wave of popular piety and religious excitement in both France and England, where millenarians-prophets of the …

A new account of the relevance of Hegel’s ideas for today’s world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his …

Marriage and Revolution is a double biography of Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793) and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland (1754-1793), leading figures in the French Revolution. …

Lyric theater in ancien régime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragédie lyrique) but also its …

From the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, capital punishment in France, as in many other countries, was staged before large crowds of spectators. Paul Friedland traces …

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. …

Året er 1794, og vi befinder os under rædselsherredømmet i Paris. Den unge Paul Courtney skjuler sig i menneskemængden, mens hans mor henrettes for øjnene af ham. Paul sværger, at …

Marie Antoinette has always fascinated readers worldwide. Yet perhaps no one knew her better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thrse, the Princess de Lamballe. The …