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4%OFFGeorge Huppert - The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment - 9780253212740 - V9780253212740
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The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment

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Description for The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment Paperback. The voices of liberty, equality, religious tolerance, reason, and enlightenment heard in renaissance Paris. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.

" . . . impressive and challenging reevaluation of the sixteenth-century origins of the Enlightenment." —Sixteenth Century Journal

In this book, George Huppert introduces the reader to a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They called themselves philosophes, they wrote poetry, they studied Greek and mathematics—and they entertained subversive notions concerning religion and politics. Classically trained, they wrote, nevertheless, in French, so as to reach the widest possible audience. These young radicals fostered a succession of disciples who expressed confidence in the eventual enlightenment of humankind and whose ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253212740
SKU
V9780253212740
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About George Huppert
GEORGE HUPPERT is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of The Idea of Perfect History: Historical Erudition and Historical Philosophy in Renaissance France, Les Bourgeois Gentilhommes: An Essay on the Definition of Elites in Renaissance France, Public Schools in Renaissance France, and After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe, ... Read more

Reviews for The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment
"Huppert makes a vigorous and effective case in The Style of Paris for the existence around the 1550s of a dynamic group of mainly young intellectuals whose spirit of scepticism and rational inquiry anticipated the Enlightenment."
David Parker, Times Literary Supplement, September 17, 1999

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