Enlightenment Portraits

Name: Enlightenment Portraits
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ISBN: 9780226865683

ISBN-10: 0226865681

ISBN-13: 9780226865683

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michel Vovelle, Lydia G. Cochrane

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Enlightenment Portraits permits us to see direct actors in history, people who took an active part in the collective adventures that put the human being at the center of Western civilizations vision of the world: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, and explorers, also soldiers and women. The Enlightenment's leading figures cast their light in an irregular and unequal way: areas and environments in which new ideas penetrated and took effect alternated with shadowy patches. The fundamental structures of society may have remained stable, but new ways of producing, of being, and of appearing made sometimes abrupt headway. Attitudes toward life, birth, love, marriage and…

Book details

List price: $123.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/18/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 462
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



Introduction Michel Vovelle



The Noble Pierre Serna



The Soldier Jean-Paul Bertaud



The Businessman Louis Bergeron



The Man of Letters Roger Chartier



The Man of Science Vincenzo Ferrone



The Artist Daniel Arasse



The Explorer Marie-Noelle Bourguet



The Functionary Carlo Capra



The Priest Dominique Julia



The Woman Dominique Godineau


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