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Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion
In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-37) set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world's religions. In the work's seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices. Bernard Picart and The First Global Vision of Religion approaches this much-cited but little-studied work from a variety of angles. Its fifteen scholarly essays examine Bernard and Picart's authorial and artistic strategies, the handling of religious difference in Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses, and the cultural context that fostered the creation of one of the most influential works of comparative religion ever published.
God in the Enlightenment
Contrary to popular belief, God not only survived the Enlightenment, but thrived within it. By exposing the Enlightenment's close ties to the traditions of the Renaissance, the passions of the Reformation, and the stirrings of globalization, God in the Enlightenment offers a spectral view of the age of lights.
Language and the Grand Tour
Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.
Hadriaan Beverland's De Peccato Originali (On Original Sin 1679)
In his De peccato originali (1679), Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) presented his thesis that sex was the original sin and a vital part of human nature. Building on contemporary insights into the history of the text of the Bible, he criticised the hypocritical attitudes among the religious and social elite of his day concerning the biblical text and sexual morality. The work became notorious in the seventeenth century and led to its author’s banishment. In the eighteenth century, it exerted considerable influence on the way in which many in Europe came to see sexuality. This annotated edition with English translation also includes a comprehensive introduction that includes a contextualization of the De peccato originali and its impact.
Le Menuisier de Nevers
Le Menuisier de Nevers est un nom d’auteur. C’est même le premier à être devenu célèbre parce que celui qui s’en servait proclamait dans ses livres qu’il était un ouvrier. Tout ici est étonnant : la date d’abord, autour de 1640, bien en amont de l’industrialisation de la France et d’une démocratisation de la culture ; la disparition complète du canon littéraire, ensuite, de ce poète longtemps fameux, réédité, lu et commenté, qui s’appelait en fait Adam Billaut. La chronologie de la poésie ouvrière pose le problème historique qui se trouve au coeur de ce livre. La littérature n’a pas attendu que les ouvriers deviennent des acteurs de l’histoire, au XIXe ...
