Rome In The Age Of Enlightenment

Author : Hanns Gross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893787
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome in the Age of Enlightenment written by Hanns Gross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only scholarly work in the English language on the city of Rome in the Age of the Enlightenment, and the only book in any language to treat this fascinating city in all its multifarious aspects. Professor Gross combines extensive archival research with the latest findings of other scholars to produce a uniquely rounded portrait of the papal capital, elegantly illustrated with contemporary engravings by Piranesi and others. The book is divided into two sections, in the first of which Professor Gross discusses the material and institutional structures of the city, including its demography, economy, food supply, and judicial systems. The second section considers aspects of intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Professor Gross contends not only that ancien-regime Rome witnessed a decline in Counter-Reformation fervour, but that this decay resulted in a marked dissonance in the political, social, and cultural life of the city.

Author : Hanns Gross
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Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266641
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founders and the Classics written by Carl J. Richard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalization and speculation, the influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book-the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading. Carl J. Richard begins by examining how eighteenth-century social institutions in general and the educational system in particular conditioned the founders to venerate the classics. He then explores the founders’ various uses of classical symbolism, models, “antimodels,” mixed government theory, pastoralism, and philosophy, revealing in detail the formative influence exerted by the classics, both directly and through the mediation of Whig and American perspectives. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders’ conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme. At the same time, we learn how the classics inspired obsessive fear of conspiracies against liberty, which poisoned relations between Federalists and Republicans. The shrewd ancients who molded Western civilization still have much to teach us, Richard suggests. His account of the critical role they played in shaping our nation and our lives provides a valuable lesson in the transcendent power of the classics.

Author : Iain McDaniel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674075285
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Iain McDaniel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.

Author : Samuel J. Miller
Publisher : Gregorian Biblical BookShop
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portugal and Rome C. 1748-1830 written by Samuel J. Miller and published by Gregorian Biblical BookShop. This book was released on 1978 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Eliot
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Enlightenment written by Simon Eliot and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1980 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3969695074
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 3 books to know Age of Enlightenment written by René Descartes and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books.These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies.We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is: Age of EnlightenmentThe Age of Enlightenment - or Age of Reason - was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant.Discourse on the Method by René Descartes.The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau."What Is Enlightenment?" is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner. Kant's opening paragraph of the essay is a much-cited definition of a lack of enlightenment as people's inability to think for themselves due not to their lack of intellect, but lack of courage.Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy, and important to the development of natural sciences.The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society.This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics!

Author : Vincenzo Ferrone
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Roots of the Italian Enlightenment written by Vincenzo Ferrone and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an examination of how Newtonian science affected the early 18th-century Enlightenment in Italy in terms of religion and politics.

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216738
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Rome written by Walter Scheidel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004412670
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. It considers the contexts, questions, and agendas that shaped eighteenth-century engagements with the ancient world, shedding new light on familiar figures and recovering forgotten chapters in this European story.