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Enlightenment at court - Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe (Paperback)
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Enlightenment at court - Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022:08
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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the royal and princely
courts of Europe as important places of Enlightenment. The
households of European rulers remained central to politics and
culture throughout the eighteenth century, and few writers,
artists, musicians, or scholars could succeed without establishing
connections to ruling houses, noble families, or powerful
courtiers. Covering case studies from Spain and France to Russia,
and from Scandinavia and Britain to the Holy Roman Empire, the
contributions of this volume examine how Enlightenment figures were
integrated into the princely courts of the Ancien Regime, and what
kinds of relationships they had with courtiers. Dangers and
opportunities presented by proximity to court are discussed as well
as the question of what rulers and courtiers gained from their
interactions with Enlightenment men and women of letters. The book
focusses on four areas: firstly, the impact of courtly patronage on
Enlightenment discourses and the work as well as careers of
Enlightenment writers; secondly, the court as an audience to be
catered for by Enlightenment writers; thirdly, the function of
Enlightenment narratives and discourses for the image-making of
rulers and courtiers; and fourthly, the role the interaction of
courtiers and Enlightenment writers played for the formulation of
reform policies.
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