Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
Goldsmiths' College
Chapter title
Le corps éclaté du roi, ou l'entrée dans la ville sous Louis XIII
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Champion
Book title
Le théâtral de la France d'Ancien Régime: de la présentation de soi à la représentation scénique
ISBN of book
9782745318909
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This paper discusses the representation of the king’s body in early-seventeenth-century France. In particular it aims to show how, in ceremonial entries, the king’s body became diffracted and demultiplied into a variety of bodies, an ‘organic’ body concealed beneath a ‘royal’ body decked out in white satin, a ‘political’ body visible both through the insignia of power carried in front of the king and the presence of representatives of the constitutional bodies, and finally an ‘imaginary’ body, which embodied the monarch’s thirst for power and prestige. The king was a rex performans and the ceremonial entry turned out to be the ideal locus for the royal performance.
