Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution

by John Gascoigne

Book Overview

This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally. It also seeks to provide a social context for the dissemination of such ideas by indicating how the political and ecclesiastical consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524970
• ISBN13: 9780521524971
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"