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Professor David Cowling's Outputs (6)

Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron. (2006)
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Cowling, D. (Ed.). (2006). Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron. Rodopi

This collection of essays by ten leading British and French Renaissance specialists explores, for the first time, differing conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France. Four essays concentrate on problems of definition in ideological, chronological,... Read More about Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron..

Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France. (1998)
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Cowling, D. (1998). Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France. Clarendon Press

Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical buildings was, however, more than a literary fashion: by deploying familiar metaphors of the buildi... Read More about Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France..