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The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard´s Religious Ceremonies of the World
Lynn Hunt
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Description for The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard´s Religious Ceremonies of the World
Hardback. Takes us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. This title explores "The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World", which appeared in 1723. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HRAB; HRAC; HRAM2; HRLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 746.
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World , which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion ... Read more
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World , which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
747g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674049284
SKU
V9780674049284
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About Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Wijnand Mijnhardt is Chair of Comparative History of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University.
Reviews for The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard´s Religious Ceremonies of the World
A major study of Picart and Bernard's work...In recent years, a number of historians have reminded us that one could be Enlightened without abandoning Christianity (or Judaism). Calls for bringing religion up to date by setting it on a modern philological and historical basis and by testing its precepts and practices against the touchstone of reason formed a central part ... Read more