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Souvenir by Potts, Rolf

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an embarrassment of Eiffel Towers -- Souvenirs in the age of pilgrimage -- Souvenirs in the age of Enlightenment -- Interlude: museums of the personal -- Souvenirs in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Souvenirs and human suffering -- Souvenirs and (the complicated notion of) authenticity -- Souvenirs, memory, and the shortness of life.…”
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Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764

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New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment

Table of Contents: “…Tale of the Comet: Enlightenment Discourse, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Undoing of Puritan Orthodoxy"The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God": Moral Agency and Human Liberty in Samuel Clarke's Newtonian Theology; Facing Forward, Looking Backward: Milton, Dryden, and the Politics of Biblical Interpretation; David Simple, Volume the Last, and Rational Christian Faith; Repentance or Regret: Isabella's Religion in The History of the Nun; The Mémoires of Jean Marteilhe, a Huguenot Galley Slave, in the Age of Enlightenment…”
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From Akhenaten to Moses : ancient Egypt and religious change by Assmann, Jan

Table of Contents: “…-- Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History -- Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age -- Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment -- Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence.…”
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Medicine and the German Jews : a history by Efron, John M.

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of the medieval Jewish physician -- Jewish physicians: in and out of the German ghetto -- Haskalah and healing: Jewish medicine in the age of enlightenment -- The Jewish body degenerate? -- The psychopathology of everyday Jewish life -- In praise of Jewish ritual: modern medicine and the defense of ancient traditions -- Before the storm: Jewish doctors in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic.…”
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Le nozze di Figaro : opera in four acts / Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

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Acis and Galatea by Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

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Encyclopedia of consumer culture

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Oriental enlightenment : the encounter between Asian and Western thought by Clarke, J. J. (John James), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…PART I: INTRODUCTION: Orientations: the issues -- Orientalism: some conjectures -- PART II: THE MAKING OF THE 'ORIENT': China cult: the age of Enlightenment --- Passage to India: the age of Romanticism -- Buddhist passions: the Nineteenth Century -- PART III: ORIENTALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: East-West encounter in the Twentieth Century -- Philosophical encounters -- Religious dialogue -- Psychological interpretations -- Scientific and ecological speculations -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS: Reflections and reorientations -- Orientalism and postmodernity.…”
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Daum's boys : schools and the republic of letters in early modern Germany by Ross, Alan S., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…'A veritabl gem' : urban culture, authority and education in early modern Zwickau -- The finished scholar : convincing oneself and convincing others -- The virtues of diversity : pedagogical innovation and contested curricula -- Violent aspirations : pupils' transgression and the spectre of university -- Learning by wrong-doing : aspiration and transgression among Zwickau pupils -- Networks, patronage and exploitation : correspondence and the next generation of scholars -- Conclusion : civic communities, humanist education and the 'Age of Enlightenment.'…”
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Captives and Corsairs : France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean. by Weiss, Gillian

Table of Contents: “…Emancipation in an Age of Enlightenment; 6. Liberation and Empire from the Revolution to Napoleon; 7. …”
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Jurowski conducts Beethoven. / Coriolan overture, op. 62 by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

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Providing for the casualties of war : the American experience through World War II by Rostker, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : looking to the past for lessons ... to apply in the future -- Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties : Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance -- Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties in the Age of Enlightenment : France and Britain as the antecedents of the American system of care -- The American system of providing for the wounded evolves -- The Civil War -- From the Civil War to the World War -- The World War -- World War II -- Summary : What happened?…”
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The history of psychology. / Mind, self, and soul

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A history of Western philosophy of education

Table of Contents: “…A history of Western philosophy of education in the age of Enlightenment / edited by Tal Gilead -- v. 4. A history of Western philosophy of education in the modern era / edited by Andrea R. …”
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Citizenship, nation, empire : the politics of history teaching in England, 1870-1930 / Politics of history teaching in England, 1870-1930 by Yeandle, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1: Contested histories: the teaching of history in its 'golden age' -- 1. Enlightened patriotism: or, what was history for? …”
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In search of the true West : culture, economics, and problems of Russian development by Kingston-Mann, Esther

Table of Contents: “…The true west: England, France, and Germany -- In the light and shadow of the west: progress in the age of enlightenment-- The lessons of western economics: support or challenge to the status quo? …”
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A history of Scottish philosophy by Broadie, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 John Duns Scotus; CHAPTER 3 The Fifteenth Century; CHAPTER 4 The Circle of John Mair; CHAPTER 5 Humanism and After; CHAPTER 6 Scotland Moves into the Age of Enlightenment; CHAPTER 7 David Hume; CHAPTER 8 Adam Smith; CHAPTER 9 The Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy; CHAPTER 10 The Nineteenth Century: Ferrier to Seth; CHAPTER 11 Realism and Idealism: Some Twentieth-century Narratives; CHAPTER 12 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Don Giovanni / Dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

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Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of Nature : the Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning. by Zakai, Avihu

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: Philosophia ancilla theologiae: The Theological Origins of Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature; Chapter II: The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the "Queen of Sciences" in the Early Modern Era; Chapter III: "All Coherence Gone"Donne and the "New Philosophy"; Chapter IV: "God of Abraham" and "Not of Philosophers": Pascal against the Philosophers' Disenchantment of the World; Chapter V: Religion and the Newtonian Universe; Chapter VI: Jonathan Edwards and the "Age of Enlightenment."…”
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Rinaldo : opera in three acts

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Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia. by Morrissey, Susan K.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration, translations, and dates; Abbreviations; Introduction; Suicide in imperial Russia; 1 Victims of their own will; 2 Virtue and vice in an age of Enlightenment; 3 The regulation of suicide; 4 Punishing the body, cleansing the conscience; 5 Policing and paternalism; 6 Arbiters of the self: the suicide note; 7 Sciences of suicide; 8 Crime, disease, sin: disputed judgments; 9 Aray of light in the kingdom of darkness; 10 Freedom, death, and the sacred.…”
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Aestheticism in art by Hogarth, William

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Black : the history of a color by Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries -- The colors of the skin -- The Christianization of dark skin -- Jesus with the dyer -- Dyeing in black -- The color's moral code -- The luxury of princes -- The gray of hope -- The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Ink and paper -- Color in black and white -- Hachures and guillochures -- The color war -- The Protestant dress code -- A very somber century -- The return of the devil -- New speculations, new classifications -- A new order of colors -- All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries -- The triumph of color -- The age of enlightenment -- The poetics of melancholy -- The age of coal and factories -- Regarding images -- A modern color -- A dangerous color?…”

In the Dark on the Sunny Side : a Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician by Baggett, Larry

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; copyright page ; title page; Contents; Prologue; Uncle Al's Truss ; A Quantum Moment ; Louis and the Problem of Sixty-Three; Sidebar: Counting Dominoes; A Cane Mutiny; Sidebar: Steps for Caning Chairs; Pinocchio Becomes a Real Boy; Aunt Mildred and the Circle of Fifths; Sidebar: The Comma of Pythagoras; Scarlet Ribbons ; Dauntless Courage; Sidebar: Definition of the Limit of a Sequence; The Age of Enlightenment; Sidebar: Mathematical Induction; Baggett v. …”
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Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

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Heroes of the Enlightenment.

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Heroes of the Enlightenment.

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The rise and fall of Versailles. the palace of pleasure

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Churches. / Restoration and reason

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Mind over matter : memory fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen by Eron, Sarah, 1982-

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The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier. by De Mier, Fray Servando Teresa

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Europe, 1715-1919 : from enlightenment to world war by Elson Roessler, Shirley, 1942-

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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon by Wolff, Larry

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium -- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna -- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris -- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem -- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace -- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege -- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism -- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala -- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror -- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler -- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror -- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration -- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.…”
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Physica sacra : Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit by Roling, Bernd, 1972-

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Enlightenment Bible : Translation, Scholarship, Culture. by Sheehan, Jonathan

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Tsar and God and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics by Uspenskiĭ, Boris Andreevich

Table of Contents: “…Cultural reforms and semiotic propaganda ; Innovations in church ritual ; The civil cult ; Parody and blasphemy as rituals of the public sphere ; Blasphemy in the paradigm of the new power ; Concluding remarks ; Notes -- The myth of the state in the Age of Enlightenment and its destruction in late eighteenth-century Russia / V.M. …”
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Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences : a study in the evolution of musical thought by Cohen, Albert, 1929-2019

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Witch hunts in the western world : persecution and punishment from the inquisition through the Salem trials by Pavlac, Brian Alexander, 1956-

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On Chester on : a history of Chester college and the University of Chester by White, G. J. (Graeme J.)

Table of Contents: “…On Chester On front cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents page; List of illustrations; About the author; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Innovation, 1839-85; Chapter 1: The Foundation and Re-Foundation of Chester College; Chapter 2: The Rigg Regime; Chapter 3: The Impact of the 1870 Act; Consolidation, 1886-1932; Chapter 4: An Age of Enlightenment; Chapter 5: The First World War and its Aftermath; Chapter 6: Affiliation to the University of Liverpool; Modernisation, 1933-74; Chapter 7: Response to Crisis; Chapter 8: The Second World War and the Post-War Years.…”
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