Extraordinary Aesthetes

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• The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes cri... Lees meer

Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures

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• The notion of 'selfhood' conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspectiveness, and autonomy - characteristics typically associated wit... Lees meer

Wilde Writings

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• Opening with an introduction by Joseph Bristow and featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramat... Lees meer

Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century

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• For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic "Enlightenment project." Historian... Lees meer

Clandestine Philosophy

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• Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religi... Lees meer

Braudel Revisited

Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo F Ruiz, Geoffrey Symcox

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• Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterrane... Lees meer

Vital Matters

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• Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immater... Lees meer

Wilde Discoveries

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• The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the "Oscar Wilde and His ... Lees meer

Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830

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• From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible ... Lees meer

Curious Encounters

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• With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and ... Lees meer

Thinking Impossibilities

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• Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectu... Lees meer

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Barbara Fuchs, Emily Weissbourd

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• Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region... Lees meer

The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe

Barbara Fuchs, Mercedes García-Arenal

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• This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres - from Inquisitional investigations to ... Lees meer

Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas

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• In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain's American colonies. That attention has... Lees meer

Cultures of Communication

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• Contrary to the historiographical commonplace "no Reformation without print" Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world throug... Lees meer

Momigliano and Antiquarianism

Peter N Miller

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• One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Ro... Lees meer

Making Worlds

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• Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. T... Lees meer

Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

Susan McClary

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• Between the waning of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Enlightenment, many fundamental aspects of human behaviour - from expressions of gender... Lees meer

Imagining the British Atlantic After the American Revolution

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• Between 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic world. From the new industrial towns of Great Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they ... Lees meer

Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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• In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiric... Lees meer

The Age of Projects

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• "The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily ... Lees meer

Culture and Authority in the Baroque

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• The cultural forms often referred to as 'baroque' are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe's effort to mediate between knowledge an... Lees meer

Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment

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• In recent decades, historians of early-modern European political thought have tended to neglect the concept of monarchy and monarchism, focusing inste... Lees meer