Srednovekovni krŭstove-enkolpioni ot Bŭlgarii︠a︡ (IX-XIV v.)

In the summer of 1661, Nicolas Fouquet the charismatic surintendant des finances appointed by the recently deceased cardinal Mazarin was arrested on the orders of the young Louis X...

Jeanne Guyon was a seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, and a fascinating figure in the court of Louis XIV. This book offers new translations of her most important spiri...

This chapter recounts the accomplishments of the French composer, harpsichordist, and organist Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729). She was the first woman to have a ...