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Book Actes Du Huiti  me Congr  s International Des Lumi  res  Bristol  21 27 Juillet 1991

Download or read book Actes Du Huiti me Congr s International Des Lumi res Bristol 21 27 Juillet 1991 written by Voltaire Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Once There Were Two True Friends  Or  Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages Through the Enlightenment

Download or read book Once There Were Two True Friends Or Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages Through the Enlightenment written by Edward Joe Johnson and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctors  Folk Medicine and the Inquisition

Download or read book Doctors Folk Medicine and the Inquisition written by Timothy Walker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking monograph explores the fascinating social context of "witchcraft" trials in Portugal during the long eighteenth century, when conventional medical practitioners, motivated by a desire to promote "scientific" medicine, worked within the Holy Office to prosecute superstitious folk healers.

Book Reflecting Senses

Download or read book Reflecting Senses written by Walter Pape and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe  Volume 5

Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume 5 written by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers>

Book Icons   Texts   Iconotexts

Download or read book Icons Texts Iconotexts written by Peter Wagner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe  Volume 5

Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume 5 written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-10-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.

Book The World of the Salons

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  • Author : Antoine Lilti
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199772347
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The World of the Salons written by Antoine Lilti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world of the 18th century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. Based on a thorough study of archival sources and using methodology derived from cultural history, social history, and the history of literature, The World of Salons proposes a completely new reading of salons' sociability in eighteenth-century Paris. It challenges the commonly accepted vision of salons as literary circles that were part of the Republic of Letters. It argues, instead, that salons were institutions of worldly sociability, had helped shape 'the world' (le monde) and high society. They have been essential places where the aristocratic elites of the capital met and interacted with literary figures. These interactions based on the mastery of the codes of polite conversation but also on the circulation of news and of personal reputations are the subject of this book. The World of the Salon looks at the way in which eighteenth-century social elites redefined themselves through their practices of worldly sociability. It highlights why some men of letters of the Enlightenment attended the salons. Moving from the salons to worldliness permits taking on some broader debates as well. What relations did worldly sociability maintain with the public sphere? How did the Parisian nobility use the idea of worldly merit and the figure of the man of the world (homme du monde) to preserve its social preeminence? Was the new political culture characterized by an appeal to the public compatible with the monarchical apparatus and with court intrigues? The World of the Salons is suitable for an Anglophone audience of early modern European cultural, political, and intellectual historians"--Provided by publisher.

Book Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth  Century Europe

Download or read book Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth Century Europe written by Patrick Speelman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual historians generally view the Enlightenment as a pacifist or anti-war movement. Military historians typically consider 18th century military thinkers as backward-looking and inept. Speelman challenges the views of both groups through a consideration of the writings of Henry Lloyd, a soldier and Welsh philosophe who combined enlightened thought and military experience to distill a distinct theory of war. Based on previously unused or underutilized primary materials, this is the first biography of this key enlightenment thinker who advanced the general understanding of war as it existed in his day. Lloyd wrote a multivolume history of the Seven Years' War from which he derived the Principles of War; a treatise on economics that prefigured the liberal theories of Adam Smith; a rhapsody on the invasion and defense of Great Britain; and finally an anonymous critique of the English constitution that he used to demand political and electoral reform. Overall, he argued for the reform of military institutions and practices through breaking from custom and traditional norms. In his works, Lloyd examined warfare within the larger context of secular philosophy and human society; and, thus, he personified the link between the military society and the Enlightenment that historians often ignore or discount.

Book Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Download or read book Georg Christoph Lichtenberg written by Jean M. Sanke and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romantic Movement

Download or read book The Romantic Movement written by David V. Erdman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Studies

Download or read book French Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archives Internationales D histoire Des Sciences

Download or read book Archives Internationales D histoire Des Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Actes Du Huiti  me Congr  s International Des Lumi  res

Download or read book Actes Du Huiti me Congr s International Des Lumi res written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: