Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII

What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII''s grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as ''sounding liturgy'' contribute to the wider discourse on absolutism and ''the arts'' in early modern France? Taking the scholarship of the so-called ''ceremonialists'' as a point of departure, Peter Bennett engages with Weber''s seminal formulation of power to con...