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Terentieva, Ekaterina. "The French Court Historical Writing as a Form of Manifestation of the Royal Power (Late 16th — First Half of 17th Century)." ISTORIYA 13, no. 1 (111) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840018884-1.

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The present paper argues that the French historical writing in the late sixteenth and in the first half of the seventeenth century became a form of manifestation of the French royal power. The integrated scientific approach chosen in this research permits the author to draw several new conclusions concerning the multiplicity of forms of publicity of the French absolute monarchy. Three main aspects are in question: the institutional (or socio-political) one, the aspect of publishing specific in early modern Europe, and the substantial aspect of the historical discourse of the epoch. The existen
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Seitz, Elisabeth. ""If Only Truber Had Been a Croat!" Slovene Variations on the Theme of a Common Slavic Literary Language from the Reformation to the Neo-Illyrian Period." Slovene Linguistic Studies 1 (February 4, 2025): 91–124. https://doi.org/10.3986/sls.1.1.07.

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Whenever leading Slovene intellectuals were in the position todecide about a large-scale solution to the literary language question,there was to be a fierce debate for several years, with the minimalist view eventually prevailing. Representatives of three differently motivated movements, the Reformation, Illyrism and Neo-Illyrism, tried to restore the linguistic unity among the South Slavs (mostly excluding the Bulgarians from the start). Accordingly, the literary language for all South Slavs was to be based either on one of the regional dialects, aiming for a wider reading public in order to
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Marton, Gellért Ernő. "A Life in Service of his Homeland – the Diplomatic Role and Activity of János Rimay." Rocznik Przemyski. Historia 1 (26) (2021): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/24497347rph.21.001.14724.

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The goal of this paper is to summarise the diplomatic and political role of poet and intellectual, János Rimay of Alsósztregova and Rima. Rimay is well-known as the pupil and friend of the great Hungarian poet, Bálint Balassi, and also as a great poet and a representative of stoicism, as well as as a diplomat and statesman who became important in the regional diplomacy in the last decades of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th century.
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Hadj Mahammed, Aissa, and Paul M. Love. "Ibadi Copyists in the Mzab Valley, Algeria (9th–10th/15th–16th Century)." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 12, no. 1 (2021): 22–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878464x-01201003.

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Abstract This article examines the circulation of manuscripts in the Mzab Valley in southern Algeria during the 9th–10th/15th–16th centuries in an attempt to identify the most prominent copyists in the region. The primary aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of manuscripts for the Mzab’s Ibadi Muslim community in this period and to demonstrate its impact on the intellectual and cultural life of the region.
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Yi, Xinyue. "Science and Art in The Creation of Adam." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 11 (April 20, 2023): 149–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v11i.7541.

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The Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement that took place in Europe from the mid-14th century to the 16th century, and profoundly influenced European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy and spreading to the rest of Europe in the 16th century, its influence is reflected in art, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, anatomy, etc. The Creation of Adam is one of the important works of this period. Michelangelo's rigorous judgment of the body on the basis of anatomy, coupled with the use of clairvoyance skills, paints a unique human beauty with a
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Galtsin, Dmitrii D. "Froben Prints and Polemics on Religion in Early Modern Eastern Europe." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History 67, no. 2 (2022): 578–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.216.

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The article explores the Froben prints stored at the Rare Books Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Science (Biblioteka Akademii Nauk) in Saint Petersburg. For three generations in the 16th century, Basel printers the Frobens influenced European intellectual life like no other publishing establishment, contributing to the spread of early Latin and Greek Christian literature, which determined both the development of theology and the humanities. Some copies of Froben prints are conspicuous for the history of their use which is intrinsically connected with various kinds of religio
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Le Baillif, Anne-Marie. "The Translator’s Paradox." Interlitteraria 21, no. 2 (2017): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2016.21.2.3.

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This paper will focus on the translators as their situation has proved to be more and more difficult in France. With examples, we want to consider how one’s position has evolved in the publishing world from the 16th century to the present. Looking at the 16th century, we can observe a real fever for translations of ancient texts. In the Netherlands, Italy and France, printers were translators and signed their translations with their proper name. Playwrights did the same with Latin and Greek works. For example, we know Oedipo tyranno by Giustiniani who translated Sophocles. The name of the Gree
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JAINCHILL, ANDREW. "POLITICAL ECONOMY, THE STATE, AND REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE." Modern Intellectual History 6, no. 2 (2009): 425–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244309002157.

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Among the stunning changes in material and intellectual life that transformed eighteenth-century Europe, perhaps none excited as much contemporary consternation as the twin-headed growth of a modern commercial economy and the fiscal–military state. As economies became increasingly based on trade, money, and credit, and states both exploded in size and forged seemingly insoluble ties to the world of finance, intellectuals displayed growing anxiety about just what kind of political, economic, and social order was taking shape before their eyes. Two important new books by Michael Sonenscher and J
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Borisov, Maksim Yu. "Marginalia in Parisian Historical Publications of the Second Half of the 16th Century in Russian and Franch Libraries." Observatory of Culture 18, no. 3 (2021): 326–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2021-18-3-326-335.

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The article is devoted to the study of reader’s practices related to the several centuries of existence of French historical books of the second half of the 16th century, the books’ place in people’s lives and attitude to them. The study’s source base is represented by a body of identified book marginalia from the copies of Parisian publications stored in the National Library of France and the Rare Books Department (Book Museum) of the Russian State Library. The handwritten notes (396 marginalia have been identified and are being introduced into scientific circulation) that are dated belong to
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Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A. "Alain Badiou a Life and a System of Thought:." Aitías, Revista de Estudios Filosóficos del Centro de Estudios Humanísticos de la UANL 3, no. 5 (2023): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.29105/aitas3.5-56.

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"L'histoire des idees", has a nominal existence in the period of the Enlightenment, that is to say, it has its origins in the 19th century in France. From the moment of its appearance and establishment as an independent field, it maintained a close and complementary relationship with philosophy. At present, the History of Ideas is a field in dialogue with History, Historiography, Philosophy and even Psychoanalysis. It is necessary to return to the French intellectual terrain, to the living history and intellectual production of our time in order to analyze the contribution that French philosop
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "France – Intellectual life – 16th century"

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Robert-Nicoud, Vincent Corentin. "The world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature and visual culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1c0536cf-ffcf-4324-a626-19075e1acca8.

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To call something 'inverted' or 'topsy-turvy' in the sixteenth century is, above all, to label it as abnormal, unnatural and going against the natural order of things. The topos of the world upside-down brings to mind a world returned to its initial state of primeval chaos, in which everything is inside-out, topsy-turvy and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, wives command their husband and rivers flow back to their source. This thesis undertakes a detailed account of the development of the topos of the world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature a
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Kay, Simon Michael Gorniak. "Literary, political and historical approaches to Virgil's Aeneid in early modern France." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13837.

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This thesis examines the increasing sophistication of sixteenth-century French literary engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. It argues that successive forms of engagement with the Aeneid should be viewed as a single process that gradually adopts increasingly complex literary strategies. It does this through a series of four different forms of literary engagement with the Aeneid: translation, continuation, rejection and reconciliation. The increasing sophistication of these forms reflects the writers' desire to interact with the original Aeneid as political epic and Roman foundation narrative, and
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Steczowicz, Agnieszka. "'The defence of contraries' : paradox in the late Renaissance disciplnes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2f93089-60f6-4408-aae9-2b3e595efcdc.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine the meanings and functions of paradox in the late Renaissance. My understanding of Renaissance paradox, in contrast to that of most critics and historians, rests entirely on contemporary definitions of the term, rather than on its present-day meaning. Paradoxes as they are envisaged in this study begin to appear in the wake of the humanist rediscovery and dissemination of Cicero's <i>Paradoxa Stoicorum</i>. In this work, paradoxes are characterized as 'admirabilia contraque opinionem omnium', a definition that draws attention to two important traits of para
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Graheli, Shanti. "The circulation and collection of Italian printed books in sixteenth-century France." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7809.

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This thesis is an examination of the circulation networks and the patterns of collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century. Although the cultural relations between the Italian and French territory have been studied, a systematic survey to assess the impact of books on the shaping of the French Renaissance has never been attempted. The first section of this study examines the trade routes and networks which facilitated the circulation of Italian printed books across the French territory. Because of the nature of the French early modern book trade, focused primarily on
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Hickmott, Sarah. "(En) Corps Sonore : towards a feminist ethics of the 'idea' of music in recent French thought." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eb562d0f-e9be-40f4-b0a3-9fa6da0a3136.

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This thesis explores the way music is characterized, used, or accounted for in recent (post-1968) French thought, focusing in particular on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Alain Badiou. In spite of the differences in their philosophical-theoretical positions, all of these writers invoke music - both directly and indirectly - to negotiate their relationship to ontological, political, ethical and aesthetic concerns, particularly in terms of how it relates to the (im)possibility of a subject, the condition of truth, and the role of philosophical thought itself. The thesi
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Stone, Villani Nicolas. "The dissolution of constitutions : Aristotle in Italian political thought from Niccolò Machiavelli to Giovanni Botero." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:600663d5-b566-46c0-8a7a-418fca1d635b.

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This thesis studies the reception of Aristotle's political thought in sixteenth-century Italy. It focuses on Aristotle's discussion of the dissolution of constitutions in Book 5 of the Politics and aims to show how Aristotle's political thought remained central to late Renaissance political discourse. No comprehensive study of the topic exists. Modern historiography on Renaissance political thought generally downplays the importance of Aristotle in the history of sixteenth-century Italian political thought and emphasises the Roman tradition over the Greek. This research aims to fill the gap in
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Segura, Mauricio. "Le discours francais sur l'Amerique latine revolutionnaire (1950-1985) /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38274.

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This thesis entitled "Le discours francais sur l'Amerique latine revolutionnaire (1950--1985)" proposes to analyze about thirty texts published in France during the mentioned period in order to extract the primary axis around which the hexagonal representations and discourses which examine Latin America articulate themselves. The corpus gathers chiefly novels and political essays, but it also includes anthropological essays, journalistic commentaries and testimonies. This is a study that relies on the theory of social discourse and on imagology.<br>This investigation, which perceives itself as
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Harikae, Ryoko. "John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland : translation and circulation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d0ebf41c-8263-45e0-a6d5-5826bf8e0396.

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John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland (1531-r. 1537) is a humanist Scots translation of Hector Boece's Scotorum Historia (1527). As the first full-scale printed national history in the vernacular, the Chronicles assumed a pivotal role in sixteenth-century Scottish literary culture. Despite its contemporary importance,however, relatively little critical attention has been paid to Bellenden's work itself, primarily due to the misconception that it is a neutral translation of the Scotorum Historia. However, as Bellenden successively revised his text in several stages with stylistical, ideologic
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Mueller, Marieke. "Subjectivity in Sartre's 'L'idiot de la famille' : biography as a space for the development of theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:54f60363-e148-4481-b710-c7e68a908bd5.

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In the context of a renascent interest in the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, this thesis proposes a close examination of one of his less studied texts, the study of Gustave Flaubert, L'Idiot de la famille (1971-72). The analysis focuses on theoretical developments that emerge from Sartre's biographical enquiry, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach combining a consideration of literary theory and literary history with the perspective of Sartre's philosophy of subjectivity. L'Idiot is situated amongst a wide variety of texts by Sartre, from Qu'est-ce que la littérature? (1948) to the Critique d
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Maglaque, Erin. "Venetian humanism in the Mediterranean world : writing empire from the margins." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4d671b0d-6917-4a1f-bcfb-2045128a11e0.

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My dissertation examines the cultural history of the Renaissance Venetian maritime empire. In this project I bring into conversation two historiographical subfields, the intellectual history of Venetian Renaissance humanism and the colonial history of the early modern Mediterranean, which have previously developed separately. In doing so, I examine the relationship between power and knowledge as it unfolded in the early modern Mediterranean. The ways in which Venetian Renaissance intellectual culture was shaped by its imperial engagements - and, conversely, how Venetian approaches to governanc
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Books on the topic "France – Intellectual life – 16th century"

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Schiffman, Zachary Sayre. On the threshold of modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

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Greengrass, Mark. Governing passions: Peace and reform in the French kingdom, 1576-1585. Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Banks, David. The Birth of the Academic Article: Le Journal des Scavans and the Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1700. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016.

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Marianne, Pade, Jensen Hannemarie Ragn, and Waage Petersen Lene, eds. Avignon & Naples: Italy in France, France in Italy in the fourteenth century. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1997.

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Miller, Peter N. Peiresc's Europe: Learning and virtue in the seventeenth century. Yale University Press, 2000.

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Davis, Natalie Zemon. The gift in sixteenth-century France. Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Davis, Natalie Zemon. The gift in sixteenth-century France. University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

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Pucci, Suzanne R. Sites of the spectator: Emerging literary and cultural practice in eighteenth-century France. Voltaire Foundation, 2001.

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Yates, Frances Amelia. The French academies of the sixteenth century. Routledge, 1988.

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Brewer, Daniel. The discourse of enlightenment in eighteenth-century France: Diderot and the art of philosophizing. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Kildea, Paul. "Speech to the International Arts Guild." In Britten on Music. Oxford University PressOxford, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198167143.003.0017.

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Abstract Ladies &amp; Gentlemen-I must say it feels very odd standing up here talking to you. My usual place is sitting over there at the piano there [sic), &amp; its the other chap who stands here with his mouth open!! But I can assure you that I wouldn’t have undertaken such an unusual &amp; (I admit) terrifying job unless it was a very important occasion. And such I believe this to be. I believe Contact with other countries, which means other styles, other schools of thought, to be essential to art. Music, I’m sure about-&amp; I think that my colleagues on the platform would agree as to the other arts. In the finest periods of music contact with the continental schools has always been close. John Dunstable in the 14th Century had pupils from Burgundy-who took his ideas abroad, &amp; gave an enormous impetus to the growth of music. In the 16th Century-the Italian madrigals &amp; canzonets were brought here-and these forms were borrowed by the great English composers of that time, with most amazing results as we all know. Perhaps greatest of all-Purcell borrowed enormously from abroad, many forms, new ideas in instrumentation, digesting them, &amp; making them his own-&amp; this is an important point. Foreign influences must be assimulated-&amp; not just blindly accepted-we know only too well the little Mendelssohns of the 19th Century, &amp; little Brahmses, Hinderniths &amp; Debussys of a later date. But to go back to my original point-we in England need the stimulus of the foreign country in music-think of what we can learn from say-France-consciousness of sound, perfection of detail. From Germany. intellectual control, formal balance, &amp; seriousness. From Italy, that wonderful sensuous melodic line-born of a country of fine voices. From Russia, a vividness of colour &amp; lack of inhibitions; &amp; from Austria what I can only describe as the sex-appeal of music.
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Israel, Jonathan. "Intellectual Life, 1650-1700." In The Dutch Republic. Oxford University PressOxford, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198730729.003.0034.

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Abstract The seventeenth century, the age of the ‘New Philosophy’, ‘Scientiflc Revolution’, and ‘Crisis of the European Mind’, marks one of the most decisive shifts in the intellectual, cultural, and religious history of the western world. But the transition did not occur simultaneously in all western Europe. Rather the process was highly uneven. Three countries, in particular, stood at the forefront —England, France, and the Dutch Republic —and, in some respects, the last was in advance of the other two. Consequently, the intellectual and scientific history of the United Provinces in the seventeenth century is crucial to any proper grasp of Europe’s intellectual crisis as a whole.
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Hillar, Marian. "The Philosophical Legacy of the 16th and 17th Century Socinians." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199836622.

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The doctrines of the Socinians represent a rational reaction to a medieval theology based on submission to the Church’s authority. Though they retained Scripture as something supra rationem, the Socinians analyzed it rationally and believed that nothing should be accepted contra rationem. Their social and political thought underwent a significant evolutionary process from a very utopian pacifistic trend condemning participation in war and holding public and judicial office to a moderate and realistic stance based on mutual love, support of the secular power of the state, active participation in social and political life, and the defense of social equality. They spoke out against the enserfment of peasants, and were the first Christians to postulate the separation of Church and state. The spirit of absolute religious freedom expressed in their practice and writings, ‘determined, more or less immediately, all the subsequent revolutions in favor of religious liberty.’(1) The precursor ideas of the Socinians on religious freedom later were expanded, perfected, and popularized by Locke and Pierre Bayle. Locke’s ideas were transplanted to America by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson who implemented them in American legislation. The rationality of the Socinians set the trend for the philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment and determined the future development of many modern intellectual endeavors.
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Grossman, Avraham. "The Social and Cultural Background of Rashi’s Work." In Rashi. Liverpool University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113898.003.0001.

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This chapter discusses the social and cultural background of Rashi's work. According to evidence preserved in the literary accounts and archaeological findings, Jews began to settle in what is now France during Roman times, in the first century CE. That settlement continued uninterrupted until Rashi's time. In general, Jews continued to do well in France. Nevertheless, the weakness of the central government and the ascendancy of local fiefdoms meant that their social and political status differed in each of the feudal states that made up eleventh-century France, depending upon the good will of the local rulers. Two developments during the eleventh and twelfth centuries influenced Jewish economic and intellectual life and the internal organization of the Jewish community: the growth of cities and the European intellectual renaissance. The chapter then looks at the Jewish community in Troyes and the Jewish centre in Champagne; the twelfth-century renaissance; and the Jewish–Christian religious polemics.
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Duquette, Natasha. "Mère Angélique Arnauld and the Paradoxes of Women’s Enclosure." In Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048560417_ch05.

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Inspired by the sixteenth-century example of the Spanish St. Teresa of Ávila, Mère Marie-Angélique Arnauld fought for the right to live as an enclosed nun in seventeenth-century France. As a result of the communal autonomy of her enclosed community, a vibrant spiritual and intellectual shared life flourished at Port Royal. The reverent atmosphere of silent study nurtured scholarly pursuits and was later recognized as forwarding women’s education. Seeking to implement a return to a Cistercian interpretation of the Rule of St. Benedict, Mère Marie-Angélique paradoxically created an environment for innovative thought that would shape philosophy in seventeenth-century France and beyond.
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Verhaart, Floris. "The Quest for Civic Virtue." In Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861690.003.0004.

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This chapter focuses on those eighteenth-century students of ancient history and literature who were mainly interested in Latin and Greek writings as moral edification. Recent decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the role played by models drawn from classical antiquity in the advancement of the concept of politeness in the eighteenth century. Much less attention has been paid to the connection between the popularizing works on antiquity that were read by the social and intellectual elites to form a conception of these classical models and contemporary scholarly debates. In order to tackle this question, I will discuss two eighteenth-century bestsellers. The first of these was the History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero by Conyers Middleton (1683–1750) and the second was the Histoire Romaine (1738–48) by the Jansenist Charles Rollin (1661–1741). Although these men had vastly different religious outlooks—Middleton was a deist and Rollin a Jansenist—they each made an important contribution to the popularization of classical culture in the eighteenth century. It will be demonstrated that the life and work of both men was deeply influenced by the moralizing and popularizing approach to classical texts (philosophia), and that they created a conception of antiquity that found its way into the works of some of the foremost philosophes of the eighteenth century, such as Voltaire and Montesquieu.
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Steinbrügge, Lieselotte, and Pamela E. Selwyn. "Introduction." In The Moral Sex. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195094923.003.0001.

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Abstract Legend has it that in France the eighteenth century was the century of women, and the facts would seem to substantiate this view. The intellectual elite met in salons led by women; the important thinkers of the age corresponded and discussed their ideas with women. A number of women took up writing themselves, producing scientific tracts, translations, novels, or pedagogical programs. Women such as Madame du Chatelet, Madame de Graffigny, Madame Riccoboni, Madame de Lambert, Julie de Lespinasse, and Madame de Genlis-to name only a few-represent this development. It was this integration of women into intellectual life which, a century later, moved the Goncourt brothers to devote a celebrated study to the women of the eighteenth century, in which they concluded that woman had been the governing principle of the age, a topos which has persisted virtually unbroken to this day.
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Miert van, Dirk. "The Long Life of the Humanist Tradition: The Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre in the Golden Age ‘." In History of Universities. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199206858.003.0001.

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Abstract The early modern ‘illustrious school’, ‘athenaeum’ or ‘gymnasium illustre’ remains a somewhat evasive educational phenomenon. This is due largely to the fact that individual schools show a variety of social and intellectual profiles, which in many cases have not been sufficiently studied. One of them in particular, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, predecessor of the current University of Amsterdam, has until recently managed to draw only little attention. In this article, I will analyse seventeenth-century opinions on the phenomenon of the ‘illustrious school’ and then test these with an analysis of the contents of teaching at one of them, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, framing the results in the wider context of Dutch higher education and, especially when it comes to the teaching of philosophy, also in the still wider context of European philosophy. I will take into account notably France and Portugal, as philosophical traditions originating in these countries seem to have been the main influence on the philosophical teaching in Amsterdam, but also Central Europe, because it was the German ‘gymnasia illustria’ which provided the institutional model of the Athenaeum. I will try to locate the Athenaeum in an intellectual tradition rather than in a social context.
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Polycandrioti, Ourania. "Greek identities and French politics in the Revue des Deux Mondes (1846–1900)." In Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988071_ch02.

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The longevity of the magazine Revue des Deux Mondes, its position among the French magazines, its contents, contributors and directors, all prominent scholars of France, establish the Revue des Deux Mondes as an important record of intellectual and political life in the nineteenth century, as well as of the way in which the West in general and France in particular regarded contemporary Greece during the same period. This study aims to provide an overview of all Greek-themed articles in the magazine from 1829 to 1899, with the purpose of exploring the various aspects of ancient and contemporary Hellenism, in relation to France’s foreign policies as well as the activities of the French School at Athens.
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Perea, Héctor. "«… Después del vendaval español»: Luis Abad Carretero (de Orán a México)." In Diaspore. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-596-4/007.

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This essay describes Luis Abad Carretero’s intellectual and artistic evolution. After the downfall of the Spanish government in April 1939, this Republican exiled from Almería began his nomadic life in Algeria and France, whilst his work as a philosopher and visual artist peaked both in Mexico and back in Spain. His two remarkable ways of expression, which were well known during his lifetime, have nowadays unfortunately been almost forgotten. This essay recounts Abad Carretero and Max Aub’s reclusion in French camps in Orán as well as José Miaja’s life experiences in Orán and Marseille just before migrating to Mexico. Also present in this essay is the Mexican people’s culture and academic evolution from Lázaro Cardenas presidency to the new avant-garde movement of the twentieth century.
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