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Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2019
Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from ...
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird   +4 more
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Enlightenment on the Spirit-Altar: Eschatology and Restoration of Morality at the King Kwan Shrine in Fin de siècle Seoul

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The period from the Treaty of Kanghwa (1876) until the fall of the Korean Empire (1897–1910) is commonly characterized as a period of kaehwa—Enlightenment—in which the Chosŏn state strived to reform and modernize.
Jihyun Kim
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2. A Complete Atheist

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2021
Jean Meslier, a largely forgotten figure of the history of political thought, is a radical thinker of the Enlightenment, and one who best illustrates Israel’s thesis about the period. This article, which proposes to set Meslier’s work in his intellectual
Charles Devellennes
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the matter of Troy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The modern world knows the Scottish Enlightenment as the nursery of today’s social sciences, when the outlines of economics, sociology and anthropology first became apparent in the works of Adam Smith and his contemporaries.
Kidd, Colin Craig
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The Enlightenment: A century on its way to multiculturalism

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
This essay brings out the cultural encounters which characterise the Enlightenment and the contemporary situation. The Enlightenment was an era when cultural encounters were on the rise, but it was also a time when racist attitudes were acceptable.
Virpi Luoma
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Early conservative critique of the enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yesGodisnjak Fakulteta politickih nauka, 2015
Analyzing its relationship to reason, tradition, social organization and other key moments of disagreement, the article exposes how the early post-revolutionary Conservatism criticizing the Enlightenment and, at the same time, articulate their own learning.
openaire   +1 more source

Identity, enlightenment and political dissent in late colonial Spanish America [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
During the long crisis of the Spanish empire between 1810 and 1825, the Creole leaders of Spanish American independence asserted a new identity for the citizens of the states which they sought to establish, calling them 'Americanos'.
Anderson   +45 more
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Condillac ou l’idéal pédagogique des Lumières

open access: yesPenser l'Éducation, 2021
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, heir to John Locke, is part of the intellectual excitement of Enlightenment thought. Inverting empiricism into sensualism, Condillac developed a theory of knowledge that emphasized the fundamental role of sensory experience ...
Josiane Guitard-Morel
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Friedrich Schlegels early Romantic notion of religion in relation to two presuppositions of the Enlightenment

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
German early Romanticism was an intellectual movement that originated in the era between the great French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Usually, it is defined in contrast to the Enlightenment.
Asko Nivala
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Urbanization, Culture and the Dutch Origins of the European Enlightenment

open access: yesBMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2010
The Dutch Republic currently plays a prominent role in the big debates on the origins and nature of the European Enlightenment. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the role played by urbanization in this.
Wijnand W. Mijnhardt
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