Polished Cornerstones of the Temple: Queenly Libraries of by Maria Luisa Lopez-vidriero

By Maria Luisa Lopez-vidriero

Based at the Panizzi Lectures given within the British Library in November 2004, The Polished Cornerstones of the Temple examines the effect of women's academic initiatives on woman examining and booklet amassing within the royal courts of the eighteenth century.

Because monarchs are foreign figures who additionally offer a behaviour-model for his or her nationwide topics; they make first-class case-studies for looking at specific nationwide styles in the wider context of eu written tradition. the most a part of the examine is dedicated to exploring the libraries of 2 queens: Caroline of Ansbach (1638-1727), spouse of George II, and Elizabeth Farnese (1692-1766), spouse of Philip V. by means of evaluating and contrasting their nice collections, writer Maria Luisa Lopez-Vidriero strikes past Protestant-Catholic highbrow and spiritual modifications and starts to outline a ecu eighteenth-century girl literary canon.


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F<'I1I1// cs S{o /Jl llif rs LOIlLi o ll . e·7 1 ... A/mteru ul11 : Lc Ce ll e, 6 17 1 N. ITh e British Libr~r y. eighteenth-century female education can be attributed to enlightened thinkers and philosophers, and were produced in the second half of the century, many of the most popular educational texts conformed to the classic norm of having been conceived by and for the court milieu. The resonance of some of these authors, such as Fenelon or the Marquis of Halifax, had crossed over the end of the previous century, as had a basic theory concerning the development of systems of knowledge and female educational theory, described by John Locke in his pioneering work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

The interest of this treatise for Protestant thinking lay in its secularised pragmatism and the consideration of virtue as an essential element of women's nature rather than as a pious obligation, but it did not feature in the queenly canon of Caroline of Ansbach, nor in that of Elizabeth Farnese in which, for Catholic thinking, L'education des filles had the value of being an educational system built upon the Catholic faith. 8 97 SuitJ) de Vn o. c. e Ie. xh~l c. de ]a pulilcue ni uliVerl 'tI! p"rL'lIs, IIi '&5 pnkcplcun, IIi n , (Ompol;tnon'l ui :tIlIl'" pe....

1700 [Cat. 568]. 1x, Etrennes ou Conseils d'un Homme de Qllalite a sa Fille. , 1692 [Cat. 548]; Etrermes ou CotlSeils d'rm Homme de Qllalite sa Fille. , 16<)8 [Cat. a a 19 549]; Miscellanies: by the late Lord Marquis of Halifax. Viz. 1. Advice to a daughter, London, printed for W. Rogers; Benj. Tooke; and D. Midwinter and T. Leigh, 1704 [Cat. fille traduit de I'anglois ... e. , 1759, pp. VIII-XIII, p. 26. fille [Cat. 547]. 'Halifax, Avis d'un pere a sa fille', journal de Trevoux, 1758, V, pp.

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