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Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment - The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Paperback)
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Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment - The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Paperback)
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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 in the Middle
Ages. Gossman argues that the Enlightenment gave great impetus to
medieval studies in France and altered their orientation, removing
them from the realm of legal and ecclesiastical dispute and
bringing them into a new framework of general history.
Concentrating his investigation of Enlightenment medievalists on
the most influential of them, La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Gossman
describes Sainte-Palaye's social and intellectual milieu and
follows him in his relations with scholars and philosophes in
France and abroad. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Walpole,
Muratori, and Herder are some of the figures whose paths crossed
that of Sainte-Palaye. Far from being opposed to philosophie, the
medievalists were, Gossman argues, nourished at the same
intellectual sources and shared many of the values of the
philosophes. The existence of a close connection between
medievalism and the Enlightenment is substantiated by the author's
detailed analyses of Sainte-Palaye's work in the history,
literature, and language of the French Middle Ages. Although
Sainte-Palaye had a surprising influence on the literature and
historiography of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-in
France, England, and Germany-eighteenth-century medievalism,
Gossman argues, is best understood not as anticipation of things to
come but as part of a complex of ideas and feelings peculiar to the
Enlightenment itself.
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