Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions

Margaret M.McGowan is Research Professor of French at the University of Sussex. Her research interests centre on the intellectual, cultural and artistic concerns of Early Modern Europe. Her publications include L’Art du Ballet de cour en France 1581-1643 (1963), Montaigne’s Deceits (1974), Ideal forms in the Age of Ronsard (1985), The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France (2000), and Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession (2008). She gave the Léopold Delisle lectures in 2012, was awarded the Wolfson Prize in 2008, and the CBE for services to French Studies in 1998.