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ISBN:
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Transactions of the Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, 21-27 July 1991
Author: Actes Du Huitième Congrès International Des Lumières, Bristol, 21-27 Juillet 1991
Author: Voltaire FoundationPublisher:
ISBN: 9780729404440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1928
Book Description
Once There Were Two True Friends, Or, Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages Through the Enlightenment
Author: Edward Joe JohnsonPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Actes Du Huitieme Congres International Des Lumieres, Bristol 21-27 Juillet 1991
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Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Reflecting Senses
Author: Walter PapePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110889447
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
Author: Bengt AnkarlooPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812217063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
Icons - Texts - Iconotexts
Author: Peter WagnerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110882590
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
Author: Marijke Gijswijt-HofstraPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0485890054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers>
Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition
Author: Timothy WalkerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047407342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This groundbreaking monograph explores the fascinating social context of "witchcraft" trials in Portugal during the long eighteenth century, when conventional medical practitioners, motivated by a desire to promote "scientific" medicine, worked within the Holy Office to prosecute superstitious folk healers.
The World of the Salons
Author: Antoine LiltiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199772347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.