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Author : Chaucer Press
Release : 2007-03
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Book Synopsis What Life Was Like During the Age of Reason by : Chaucer Press
Download or read book What Life Was Like During the Age of Reason written by Chaucer Press. This book was released on 2007-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denise Dersin
Release : 1999
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Book Synopsis What Life was Like During the Age of Reason by : Denise Dersin
Download or read book What Life was Like During the Age of Reason written by Denise Dersin. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Paine
Release : 2009-02-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Age of Reason by : Thomas Paine
Download or read book The Age of Reason written by Thomas Paine. This book was released on 2009-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com
Author : Roy Porter
Release : 2004
Genre : Body and soul in literature
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Book Synopsis Flesh in the Age of Reason by : Roy Porter
Download or read book Flesh in the Age of Reason written by Roy Porter. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the Enlightenment (with its explosion or rational thinking and scientific invention of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) provided a lens through which we can best see the profound shift from the theocentric, otherwordly, Dark Ages to the modern, earthly, body-centered world we live in today. As man made in God's image gave way to the Enlightenment's notion of the Self-made man, the body moved center stage. Porter writes brilliantly on the ways in which men and women flaunted, decorated, tanned, and dieted themselves: activities that we find familiar but that a Puritan divine would have considered satanic. And he explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blake, and Byron."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Dorinda Outram
Release : 2019-04-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Four Fools in the Age of Reason by : Dorinda Outram
Download or read book Four Fools in the Age of Reason written by Dorinda Outram. This book was released on 2019-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations. Outram takes us first to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, who emerges not only as an administrative reformer and notorious militarist but also as a "master of fools," a ruler who used fools to prop up his uncertain power. The autobiography of the itinerant fool Peter Prosch affords a rare insider’s view of the small courts in Catholic south Germany, Austria, and Bavaria. Full of sharp observations of prelates and princes, the autobiography also records episodes of the extraordinary cruelty for which the German princely courts were notorious. Joseph Fröhlich, court fool in Dresden, presents more appealing facets of foolery. A sharp salesman and hero of the Meissen factories, he was deeply attached to the folk life of fooling. The book ends by tying the growth of Enlightenment skepticism to the demise of court foolery around 1800. Outram’s book is invaluable for giving us such a vivid depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of power in Enlightenment Europe.
