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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution
Author: Alyssa Goldstein SepinwallPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.
Berruyer's Bible
Author: Daniel J. WatkinsPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228007879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's Histoire, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on its head by showing that the secularization of French society and the political decline of the Catholic Church were due not solely to the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and beyond.
Antoine Barnave
Author: John HardmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300272189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A major new biography of Antoine Barnave—the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French Revolution. He was a didactic man of austere morals and vaulting ambition who dressed as an English dandy, running up considerable tailor’s bills. Before his execution at age thirty-two, he played a decisive role in revolutionary politics and even governed France in 1791 through a secret correspondence with Marie-Antoinette. In the first biography for more than a century, John Hardman traces Barnave’s life from his youth in Dauphiné to his role in the Constituent Assembly and his part in forming the Feuillants, the party dedicated to the moderate cause. Despite his early death, Barnave left a remarkable volume of material, from published works to thousands of manuscript pages. Hardman uses this rich archive to explore the life of this elusive writer, politician, and thinker—and sheds new light on the revolutionary period.
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
1806. A Catalogue of a Very Scarce and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Sciences, Including Several Parcels Lately Purchased, ...
Author: Thomas Reynolds (Bookseller)Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1807-1871
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Catalogue ... 1807-1871
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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