Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard´s Religious Ceremonies of the World
Hunt, Lynn; Jacob, Margaret C.; Mijnhardt, Wijnand
€ 15.00
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard´s Religious Ceremonies of the World
hardcover. Takes us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. This title explores "The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World", which appeared in 1723. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HRAB; HRAC; HRAM2; HRLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 748. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World , which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674049284
SKU
KSG0036074
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Hunt, Lynn; Jacob, Margaret C.; Mijnhardt, Wijnand
Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Wijnand Mijnhardt is Chair of Comparative History of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University.
Reviews for The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard´s Religious Ceremonies of the World
A major study of Picart and Bernard's work...In recent years, a number of historians have reminded us that one could be Enlightened without abandoning Christianity (or Judaism). Calls for bringing religion up to date by setting it on a modern philological and historical basis and by testing its precepts and practices against the touchstone of reason formed a central part of the Enlightenment project
more central, it seems, than calls for strangling the last king in the bowels of the last priest. Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt have added a distinctive chapter to the story.
Anthony Grafton New York Review of Books 20100624 [This] stunning new work, The Book That Changed Europe, [is] an exhaustive and exhilarating inquiry into the meaning of Picart and Bernard's massive undertaking. At once an exercise in scholarship and a tribute to its subject, this volume makes clear why Picart and Bernard ought to be household names, as familiar to us as Voltaire and Diderot...By taking its readers behind the scenes, The Book That Changed Europe helps us to understand what lay behind the enduring impact of its namesake and why it matters in the long run...Equally entertaining and instructive, it makes us care, and care deeply, about the fate of an earlier publication, underscoring the power of words to effect change and touch the heart.
Jenna Weissman Joselit Tablet Magazine 20100701 In The Book that Changed Europe (a book that is almost as absorbing as the book it is about, and that is high praise indeed), historians Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt make clear just what was at stake in Bernard and Picart's undertaking: they were mapping a way to imagine religious toleration.
Lauren Winner Books & Culture 20100317
more central, it seems, than calls for strangling the last king in the bowels of the last priest. Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt have added a distinctive chapter to the story.
Anthony Grafton New York Review of Books 20100624 [This] stunning new work, The Book That Changed Europe, [is] an exhaustive and exhilarating inquiry into the meaning of Picart and Bernard's massive undertaking. At once an exercise in scholarship and a tribute to its subject, this volume makes clear why Picart and Bernard ought to be household names, as familiar to us as Voltaire and Diderot...By taking its readers behind the scenes, The Book That Changed Europe helps us to understand what lay behind the enduring impact of its namesake and why it matters in the long run...Equally entertaining and instructive, it makes us care, and care deeply, about the fate of an earlier publication, underscoring the power of words to effect change and touch the heart.
Jenna Weissman Joselit Tablet Magazine 20100701 In The Book that Changed Europe (a book that is almost as absorbing as the book it is about, and that is high praise indeed), historians Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt make clear just what was at stake in Bernard and Picart's undertaking: they were mapping a way to imagine religious toleration.
Lauren Winner Books & Culture 20100317