Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment

Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment
Author: Lionel Gossman
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421430843

Originally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no one—with the exception of a few obscure antiquarians—was seriously interested in the Middle Ages. Gossman argues that the Enlightenment gave great impetus to medieval studies in France and altered their orientation, removing them from the realm of legal and ecclesiastical dispute and bringing them into a new framework of general history. Concentrating his investigation of Enlightenment medievalists on the most influential of them, La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Gossman describes Sainte-Palaye's social and intellectual milieu and follows him in his relations with scholars and philosophes in France and abroad. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Walpole, Muratori, and Herder are some of the figures whose paths crossed that of Sainte-Palaye. Far from being opposed to philosophie, the medievalists were, Gossman argues, nourished at the same intellectual sources and shared many of the values of the philosophes. The existence of a close connection between medievalism and the Enlightenment is substantiated by the author's detailed analyses of Sainte-Palaye's work in the history, literature, and language of the French Middle Ages. Although Sainte-Palaye had a surprising influence on the literature and historiography of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—in France, England, and Germany—eighteenth-century medievalism, Gossman argues, is best understood not as anticipation of things to come but as part of a complex of ideas and feelings peculiar to the Enlightenment itself.

The Court of Burgundy

The Court of Burgundy
Author: Otto Cartellieri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 113620413X

Originally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth-century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1912
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages

War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages
Author: Anthony Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2002-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134895135

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Report

Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 952
Release: 1914
Genre: Shipping
ISBN:

The Arnolfini Betrothal

The Arnolfini Betrothal
Author: Edwin Hall
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520212213

Edwin Hall's accessible study of Jan van Eyck's 1434 painting known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" makes a unique contribution to the fascinating history of betrothal and marriage custom, ritual, and ceremony, and offers a compelling new interpretation of this wonderful work of art. 16 color plates. 62 b&w illustrations.