The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment

by George Huppert

Book Overview

" . . . impressive and challenging reevaluation of the sixteenth-century origins of the Enlightenment." --Sixteenth Century Journal

In this book, George Huppert introduces the reader to a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They called themselves philosophes, they wrote poetry, they studied Greek and mathematics--and they entertained subversive notions concerning religion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025321274X
• ISBN13: 9780253212740
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher