J. van Eijnatten (ed.), Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

Jan van Rymsdyk, medical artist of the eighteenth century

phinische, Vormarz, Biedermeier) that are second nature to the Viennese, but unknown to almost everyone else. Occasionally, for example, when Lesky refers to Adolf Lorenz as "the father of our Nobel Prize winner, Konrad," one has the uneasy feeling that one is reading something intended for someone else. In any case, to appreciate fully Lesky's book, in addition to the history of medicine, one ...

Jay M . Smith , ed . ( 2006 ) The French nobility in the eighteenth century : reassessments and new approaches

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1 Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth century

In December 1774, seventeen-year-old Carl August, Prince of Saxe Weimar, met the celebrated young author Johann Wolfgang Goethe in a Frankfurt hotel room. The meeting was cordial, indeed the two men got along together so splendidly that, less than a year later, Goethe accepted the prince’s invitation to move to Weimar, where he would spend the rest of his long and incredibly productive life. I ...

Allegory and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century

In a reading of William Blake's frontispiece to “There is no Natural Religion” that draws largely on the history of the allegorical mode, I offer a narrative that explores the creative ways in which Blake illuminated his ideas about the value of Enlightenment thought.

Agnotology and exotic abortifacients: the cultural production of ignorance in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.