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Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them-least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly written study, Jeffrey Freedman examines one of the most important axes of the transnational book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and the German-speaking lands. Focusing on the critical role of book dealers as cultural intermediaries, he follows French books through each stage of their journey-from the French-language printing shops where they were produced, to the wholesale book fairs in Leipzig, to retail book shops at locations scattered widely throughout Germany. At some of those locations, authorities reacted with alarm to the spread of French books, burning works of the radical French Enlightenment and punishing the booksellers who sold them. But officials had little power to curtail their circulation: the political fragmentation of the German lands made it virtually impossible to police the book trade. Largely unimpeded by censorship, French books circulated more freely in Germany than in the absolutist monarchy of France. In comparison, the flow of German books into the French market was negligible-an asymmetry that corresponded to the hierarchy of languages in Enlightenment Europe. But publishers in Switzerland produced French translations of German books. By means of title changes, creative editing, and mendacious advertising, the Swiss publishers adapted works of the German Enlightenment for an audience of French-readers that stretched from Dublin to Moscow. An innovative contribution to both the history of the book and the transnational study of the Enlightenment, Freedman's work tells a story of crucial importance to understanding the circulation of texts in an age in which the concept of World Literature had not yet been invented, but the phenomenon already existed.

Enlightenment --- French language --- Literature publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- History --- Publishing --- European History. --- History. --- World History.

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A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre twists and colorful characters--an anti-clerical gravedigger, a hard-drinking drifter, a defrocked minister--who come to life in a series of dramatic criminal trials. But it is also far more than just a good story. In the wider world of German-speaking Europe, writes Jeffrey Freedman, the affair became a cause célèbre, the object of a lively public debate that focused on an issue much on the minds of intellectuals in the age of Enlightenment: the problem of evil. Contemporaries were unable to ascribe any rational motive to an attempt to poison hundreds of worshippers. Such a crime pointed beyond reason to moral depravity so radical it seemed diabolic. By following contemporaries as they struggled to comprehend an act of inscrutable evil, this book brings to life a key episode in the history of the German Enlightenment--an episode in which the Enlightenment was forced to interrogate the very limits of reason itself. Twentieth-century horrors have familiarized us with the type of evil that so shocked the men and women of the eighteenth century. Does this familiarity give us any special insight into the affair of the poisoned chalice? In its final chapter, the book takes up this question, reflecting on the nature of historical knowledge through an imaginary dialogue with Enlightenment-era interlocutors. But it does not reach any definitive conclusion about what happened in the Zurich cathedral in 1776. To search for the truth about such a mystery is merely to extend a dialogue begun in the eighteenth century, and that dialogue is as open-ended as the process of Enlightenment itself.

Enverinament --- Eucaristia --- Be i mal. --- Il·lustració --- Història --- Vi --- Història --- Països de parla alemanya --- Vida intel·lectual --- American Revolution. --- Augsburg. --- Baptism. --- Blood libel. --- Chemistry. --- Critique of Pure Reason (Kant). --- Deism. --- Diderot, Denis. --- Eberhard, Johann. --- Eternal damnation. --- Evil: diabolic. --- Faust (Müller). --- French Revolution. --- Geneva. --- Gessner, Johannes. --- Göttingen. --- Halle. --- Hitler, Adolf. --- Holocaust. --- Iconoclasm. --- Koller, Johann Jakob. --- Lavoisier, Antoine. --- Leipzig. --- Lucerne. --- Marx, Karl. --- Medicine. --- Möser, Justus. --- Neology. --- Nihilism. --- Original sin. --- Physics. --- Predestination. --- Public sphere. --- Public use of reason. --- Reading cabinets. --- Reading societies. --- Riesbach. --- Semler, Johann. --- Small Council. --- Statistics. --- Stuttgart. --- Theodicy. --- Transubstantiation. --- Ulrich's wife. --- Vienna. --- Voltaire. --- Weber, Matthias. --- Wiedikon. --- Wirz's sister. --- Zwingli, Huldrych.

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"How has our understanding of death evolved over the course of 2,500 years? What can recorded history tell us about how different cultures and societies have felt about, experienced, responded to and marked the occasion of death across different periods and lands? These are the questions pursued by 54 experts in this landmark work that explores the way past societies thought, behaved and developed as they wrestled with enormity of their own mortality. The volumes draw on history, anthropology and cultural studies to carve a complete picture of death, its symbols and interpretations from Antiquity to the present day."--Publisher site

Mort --- Death --- Culture --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- History. --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- World history --- History of civilization