Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment: The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye

by Lionel Gossman

Book Overview

Originally 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 one--with the exception of a few obscure antiquarians--was 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080180227X
• ISBN13: 9780801802270
• Release Date: August 1968
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher