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Calvet's Web

L. W. B. Brockliss
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      This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores in detail the intellectual interests and relationships of a representative sample of the French Republic of Letters. He traces the destruction of the Republic during the Revolution, and its reconstruction, in different guise, under Napoleon. "Calvet's Web" is an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, the history of collecting, and the history of the book. In addition, by examining the circle's attitude to the philosophes and their programme of material and moral progress, it offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: L. W. B. Brockliss EAN: 9780199247486 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 911 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-07-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / France WIDTH: 164 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      c 1500 onwards to present day, Biography: historical, political and military, History of ideas, European history

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      Laurence Brockliss is a Reader in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford.
      This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores in detail the intellectual interests and relationships of a representative sample of the French Republic of Letters. He traces the destruction of the Republic during the Revolution, and its reconstruction, in different guise, under Napoleon. "Calvet's Web" is an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, the history of collecting, and the history of the book. In addition, by examining the circle's attitude to the philosophes and their programme of material and moral progress, it offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: L. W. B. Brockliss EAN: 9780199247486 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 911 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-07-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / France WIDTH: 164 cm SPINE:

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      c 1500 onwards to present day, Biography: historical, political and military, History of ideas, European history

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      Laurence Brockliss is a Reader in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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