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

• Main Author: Gossman, Lionel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval
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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...