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- Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
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In recent years, historians have rediscovered the religious dimensions of the Enlightenment. This volume offers a thorough reappraisal of the so-called “Catholic Enlightenment” as a transnational Enlightenment movement. This Catholic Enlightenment was at once ultramontane and conciliarist, sometimes moderate but often surprisingly radical, with participants active throughout Europe in universities, seminaries, salons, and the periodical press. In Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History, the contributors, primarily European scholars, provide intellectual biographies of twenty Catholic Enlightenment figures across eighteenth-century Europe, many of them little known in English-language scholarship on the Enlightenment and pre-revolutionary eras. These figures represent not only familiar French intellectuals of the Catholic Enlightenment but also Iberian, Italian, English, Polish, and German thinkers. The essays focus on the intellectual and cultural factors influencing the lives and works of their subjects, revealing the often global networks of intellectual sociability and reading that united them both to the Catholic Enlightenment and to eighteenth-century policies and projects. The volume, whose purpose is to advance the understanding of a transnational "Catholic Enlightenment," will be a reliable reference for historians, theologians, and scholars working in religious studies.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-38
- Part: 1: Catholic Enlightenment and the Papacy
- Part 2: Catholicism and the Siècle des Lumières in France and Savoy
- Chapter 4: Adrien Lamourette (1742–1794)
- pp. 107-124
- Chapter 5: Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)
- pp. 125-144
- Part 3: Catholic Enlightenment in the Holy Roman Empire
- Chapter 7: Benedict Stattler (1728–1797)
- pp. 167-190
- Chapter 8: Beda Mayr (1742–1794)
- pp. 191-206
- Part 4: Catholicism, Enlightenment, and Habsburg Europe
- Chapter 10: Johann Pezzl (1756–1823)
- pp. 227-246
- Part 5: Varieties of Italian Catholic Enlightenment
- Chapter 12: Antonio Genovesi (1713–1769)
- pp. 269-288
- Chapter 13: Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799)
- pp. 289-306
- Part 6: Catholicism, Enlightenment, and the Iberian States
- Part 7: Transnational Trajectories: The Intersection of Irish, French, Italian, and Habsburg Developments
- Chapter 16: Ruggiero Boscovich (1711–1787)
- pp. 353-370
- Chapter 17: Luke Joseph Hooke (1714–1796)
- pp. 371-388
- Part 8: Catholicism in Protestant Territorial-Dynastic States: Scottish and English Enlightenment Variations
- Chapter 19: Alexander Geddes (1737–1802)
- pp. 411-430
- Part 9: The Polish Catholic Enlightenment
- Chapter 20: Stanisław Konarski (1700–1772)
- pp. 433-454
- Chapter 21: Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812)
- pp. 455-472
- Contributors
- pp. 473-474
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268075958
Related ISBN(s)
9780268022402
MARC Record
OCLC
877850661
Pages
448
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-15
Language
English
Open Access
No