Enlightenment Portraits - - - Paperback Bog - The University of Chicago Press - 1997 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

Offers a study of those at the centre of Western civilization's vision of the world - the Enlightenment: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, explorers, soldiers and women. This book examines the fundamental structures of society, and attitudes to birth, death and sexuality.