{"product_id":"medievalism-and-the-ideologies-of-the-enlightenment-9781421430447","title":"Medievalism and the Ideologies of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no onewith the exception of a few obscure antiquarianswas seriously interested in the Middle Ages. Gossman argues that the Enlightenment gave great impetus to medieval studies in France and altered their orientation, removing them from the realm of legal and ecclesiastical dispute and bringing them into a new framework of general history. Concentrating his investigation of Enlightenment medievalists on the most influential of them, La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Gossman describes Sainte-Palaye's social and intellectual milieu and follows him in his relations with scholars and philosophes in France and abroad. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Walpole, Muratori, and Herder are some of the figures whose paths crossed that of Sainte-Palaye. Far from being opposed to philosophie, t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations Frequently Used in Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: An Eighteenth-Century Scholar and His World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Background and Education\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. A Diplomatic Career\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Interllectual Societies, Salons, and Friends\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Scholars of the \u003ci\u003erobe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ephilosophes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Amateur of the Arts and Royal Acadmician\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. New Approaches to Medieval Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Works of Medieval Scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Language\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Publication of Documents Relative to French History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Catalogues of Manuscripts Relative to Medieval History: The \u003ci\u003eNotices de manuscits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Problems and Methods of Editing Medieval Texts\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Study of the Chronicle Sources of Medieval History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Studey of the LIterary Sources of Medieval History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Questions of the Publication of Medieval Tests\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The \u003ci\u003eDictionnaire des antiquites\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The \u003ci\u003eMemoires sur l'ancienne chevaleria\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMemoires historiques sur la chasse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The \u003ci\u003eHistorie litteraire des troubadours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Conclusion: Medievalism and Enlightenment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Contribution of Sainte-Palaye to the Thought of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Discussion of Medievalism in the Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Place of Sainte-Palaye's Word in the History of Historiography and of Historical Scholarship\u003cbr\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408129827159,"sku":"9781421430447","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421430447.jpg?v=1730501694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medievalism-and-the-ideologies-of-the-enlightenment-9781421430447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}