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A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment
, 2023 This volume provides a wholly original social history of books in late colonial Peru. From the second half of the eighteenth century onward, workshops in Lima and transoceanic imports supplied the market with unprecedented quantities of print ...
Gehbald, Agnes
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Mobility in the European Aristocracy during the Age of Enlightenment
Historical Studies on Central EuropeHelena Potocka offers a wonderful case study because she was a perfect representative of the high European aristocracy under French influence. Educated in a Parisian religious house, she had the culture of the young girls of the nobility of Versailles ...
Michel Figeac
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Sacred or profane pleasures? Erotic ceremonies in eighteenth-century French libertine fiction
, 2017 In France, the Age of Enlightenment was also an age of literary levity that saw a proliferation of erotic and pornographic narratives, where philosophy often fuses with sexual gratification.
Ganofsky, Marine
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Revisiting the age of enlightenment from a collective decision making systems perspective [PDF]
, 2009 The ideals of the eighteenth century's Age of Enlightenment are the foundation of modern democracies. The era was characterized by thinkers who promoted progressive social reforms that opposed the long-established aristocracies and monarchies of the time.
Rodriguez, Marko A. +3 more
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Spatial humanities: mapping Edinburgh in the first age of Enlightenment [PDF]
, 2016 Describes the first phase of a digital project mapping social and cultural relationships in early 18th century Edinburgh, Scotland, part of a larger AHRC grant-funded study Allan Ramsay and Edinburgh in the First Age of the Enlightenment; explores ...
Pittock, Murray, Lamont, Craig Ronald
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Die donker kant van die Verligting
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1998 The dark side of the Enlightenment The complex concept “Enlightenment" was ambiguous, even in the time of its inception in the 18th century. As such, it was ambivalent, revealing a dialectical tension between rational-irrational, and Christian ...
L.F. Schulze
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The Philosophical Age. Almanac. Issue 36. The Northern Lights : Facets of the Enlightenment Culture
, 2010 keywords: Enlightenment, Northern countries, Finland, Russia, Scotland In the 36 th edition of the almanac "Philosophical Age" published materials of international symposium «The Northern Lights - Facets of Enlightenment Culture», (held September 25-26 ...
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, 2010 PhDDuring the second half of the 18th century, a debate about Russia developed in France and Germany. Spurred on by a preoccupation with Peter I’s project to swiftly civilise his country through Europeanisation, and by the evolving idea of a philosophic ...
Speck, Reto, Speck, Reto Peter
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Vista, vision and visual consumption from the Age of Enlightenment
, 2010 Drawing on previous discussions of visual consumption in marketing, this paper uses two historical examples to examine visuality and the enduring effect of the Age of Enlightenment on visual consumption. Drawing on the French garden and the philosophical
Helene de Burgh-Woodman +3 more
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