Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Riccarda Suitner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004465030
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.

Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1312

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Author: Nicolás Bas Martín
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004359524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.

Author: Emmet Kennedy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137512865
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

Author: Bernard : de Fontenelle
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Languages : fr
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Author: Bernard de Fontenelle
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 552

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Author: Bernard de Fontenelle
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Languages : fr
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Author: ... De Fontenelle
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 342

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Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.