{"product_id":"the-universal-baroque-9781526126931","title":"The Universal Baroque","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The nation-state is the enemy of the baroque.' This is the point of departure of this radical, even revolutionary, re-examination of the cultural history of the early-modern world. Drawing on sources in six languages, many of them hitherto unavailable to the English-speaking reader, and touching on the visual arts, architecture, music and literature, this study frees the word 'baroque' from being a term of periodisation into being the descriptor for a network of circulation of ideas, words, plants, arts and energies which encompassed the totality of the early-modern world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis challenging book also forces a reconsideration of many of the prejudices of the Anglophone perception of cultural history and in doing so opens to the reader a world of wonders: the allegorical dramas of Ireland and Belgrade; the arquebusier angels of Cuzco painting; the operas and festival music of Bolivia; the vertiginous architectural fantasies of the Jacobite exiles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Davidson is a Senior Research Fellow and Archivist at Campion Hall, The University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50418380079378,"sku":"9781526126931","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8fd13951-0739-49e7-93ed-718ae89cef36.jpg?v=1729471223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-universal-baroque-9781526126931","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}