Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 12 : The Reception of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment
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Subject: Classical Studies
This volume explores engagement with Greco-Roman Antiquity across Europe and beyond in the 18th century. Approximately 100 experts, in some 140 articles from “Academy” to “Wallpaper”, show how Classical and rival antiquities were perceived and studied during the age of Enlightenment, revolution and scientific progress, and how they served the formulation and affirmation of new ideals. The survey covers the period between the outbreak of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes in France in 1687 and the reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
Journals
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A. Periodicals and publics in the long 18th centuryCompared to newspapers, which were primarily concerned with current political events, journals had a far wider range of subject matter and addressed a spectrum of target groups. They represented an extremely significant media innovation of the Age of Enlightenment. Their potential for communication was visibly bigger and more flexible than that offered in the culture of books which were erudite, often voluminous, physically large and expensive. Furthermore, unlike the handwritten correspondence networks (Letters) mainta…
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2021-01-25
Judaism
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A. Judaism in the 18th century: the HaskalahThe reception of Antiquity in 18th-century Judaism was related to the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment) and thus to the cultural shift in Jewish culture that, over the course of the entire century (and beyond), gave rise to that movement. The Haskalah was a multifaceted sociocultural phenomenon that was influenced only in part by the European Enlightenment (see below, D.), for its main aim was the emancipation of Jews, especially in Central Europe. According to the
maskilim (followers and proponents of the Haskalah), such an ai…
Date:
2021-01-25