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Des variétés aux races humaines

open access: yesRevue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines
In autumn 2014, as part of a public lectures series at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris) (“Rendez-vous du Muséum”), Claude Blanckaert gave three lectures analysing the anthropology of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), his ...
Claude Blanckaert
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[Book review] Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment: A Cultural History

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Comprising an introduction and eight chapters by authors at the forefront of research on historical interiors, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to interpretations of interior spaces—built or imagined—located in Europe and North America ...
McCormack, Helen
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Milieux physiques et variétés humaines

open access: yesRevue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines
In autumn 2014, as part of a public lectures series at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris) (“Rendez-vous du Muséum”), Claude Blanckaert gave three lectures analysing the anthropology of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), his ...
Claude Blanckaert
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The Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in the age of the Kingdom of Poland. The polemics between Father Karol Surowiecki and minister Stanisław Kostka Potocki

open access: yesFolia Historica Cracoviensia, 2017
By criticizing the world around them, the supporters of the idea of Enlightenment brought about profound transformations in all areas of life. This did not mean, however, that such ideas and transformations gained widespread acceptance.
Rafał Szczurowski
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Theology before and after Bishop Robinson's Honest to God (1963) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Religion, 2018
Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God (1963) may be judged as a bombshell that blew the roof off the church, not because it introduced original thinking, but because it brought to unsuspecting people in the pews some knowledge of the developments that had
Lloyd Geering
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The Register of Slovenian-Language Manuscripts from the 17th and 18th Centuries: Repository, Digital Library and Research Environment

open access: yesKnjižnica, 2012
EXTENDED ABSTRACT: The paper gives a thorough examination of the Register of Slovenian-language manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries from different points of view: it is presented as a digital repository in humanities disciplines available for ...
Matija Ogrin   +2 more
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Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : libraries, readers and intellectual culture in provincial Scotland c.1750-c.1820

open access: yes, 2008
The thesis explores the reception of the works of the Scottish Enlightenment in provincial Scotland, broadly defined, aiming to gauge their diffusion in the libraries of private book collectors and 'public' book-lending institutions, and to suggest the ...
Towsey, Mark R. M.
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Capriccio all’antica. Shaping the Ruin in the Age of Enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yesRevue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art : Série Beaux-Arts, 2012
From its outset in the 14th century, the poetics of ruin underwent a gradual mutation from nostalgic lamentation to romancing reverie. However, it was during the age of Enlightenment, and in the context of archaeological discoveries and picturesque ...
Cosmin Ungureanu
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Geskiedsfilosofie in 'n krisis: Die noodwendigheid en aktualiteit van die nasionale staatsidee

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1985
Philosophy of history in crisis: The actuality and necessity of the concept of the national state The aim of this essay is to explicate the thesis of an intrinsic relationship between the Enlightenment philosophy of history and the (ideological) war ...
M. J. Schoeman
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Adam brothers: architects of the age of the enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This thesis investigates the architectural responses to the Enlightenment in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century and, in particular on the profound interrelation between the empirical ideas of the Enlightenment and the development ...
Kondo, Ariyuki
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