{"product_id":"music-and-power-at-the-court-of-louis-xiii-9781108822435","title":"Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Bennett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Religious - Christian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 the power of a king almost continuously engaged in religious conflict. Numerous musical settings show that David, the psalmist, musician, king and agent of the Holy Spirit, provided the most enduring model of kingship; but in the final decade of his life, as Louis dedicated the Kingdom to the Virgin Mary, the model of 'Christ the King' became even more potent - a model reflected in a flowering of musical publication and famous paintings by Vouet and Champaigne.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46444655771799,"sku":"9781108822435","price":3513.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781108822435.webp?v=1769131325","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/music-and-power-at-the-court-of-louis-xiii-9781108822435","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}