Search for dissertations about: "ancien régime"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words ancien régime.
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1. Costume in the Time of Reforms : Louis-René Boquet Designing Eighteenth-Century Ballet and Opera
Abstract : The long eighteenth century was a turbulent period in France, many crucial reforms in society, politics and art challenging the established order of the ancien régime. This battle took place on the theatrical stage as well and materialized in the approach to costume. READ MORE
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2. Dress Matters : Clothes and Social Order in Tallinn, 1600-1700
Abstract : This dissertation explores the relationship of clothes and social order in early modern Europe. The period has often been characterised as inert and immobile, with especially middling and poorer people living in a sartorially drab world, but a number of historians have demonstrated that it was also a period of profound material change, with consumer demand, democratisation of fashion and global trade engendering cosmopolitan sensibilities earlier than thought. READ MORE