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Judging by most contemporary accounts, the virtues of cross-disciplinary research, teaching and scholarship are above reproach. Conference organisers announce with pride that …

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly …

Anne es una adolescente que, como las demás, intenta comunicarse y comprender el mundo que la rodea. Pero es en vano, porque ni las palabras de sus padres, ni las de Mathieu -el …

Did ‘sex education’ actually exist in eighteenth-century France? Shaped by competing currents of religious dogma, atheist materialism and bourgeois morality, eighteenth-century …

Né à Rennes le 10 janvier 1716, dom Deschamps entra dans les ordres le 8 septembre 1733. Il resta au prieuré de Montreuil-Bellay, près de Saumur le 19 avril 1774. Il fut nommé …

Voici éditées pour la première fois intégralement les lettres échangées par Frédéric II et la duchesse de Saxe-Gotha, à partir des manuscrits conservés à Berlin et à Gotha. On y …

The French Enlightenment takes place against a background of State censorship. During the last decade or so of the Ancien régime, the French government fluctuated considerably …

Medievalism -the appropriation of elements of medieval culture - has a long history: every century since the sixteenth has remade the Middle Ages in its own image. But different …

Eighteenth-century Epicureanism is often viewed as radical, anti-religious and politically dangerous. But to what extent does this simplify the ancient philosophy and underestimate …

This volume examines the evolving reputation of Rousseau as an authority on education in France from the publication of Emile in 1762 to the fall of the Jacobins in 1794. It takes …