On the concept of virtue in eighteenth-century Spain
Title | On the concept of virtue in eighteenth-century Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Coughlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1992 |
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Virtue, Corruption, and Self-interest
Title | Virtue, Corruption, and Self-interest PDF eBook |
Author | Richard K. Matthews |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
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The idea for this volume developed from The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Lehigh University. The Gipson Institute was established in 1972 as a memorial to the outstanding historian who was the recipient of the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for selected volumes in his British Empire Series. The chief aim of the Gipson Institute has been to promote an understanding of the eighteenth century from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Title | Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Heydt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108421091 |
A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.
Eighteenth Century Strategies of Virtue
Title | Eighteenth Century Strategies of Virtue PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hartz |
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Pages | 434 |
Release | 1989 |
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Love Customs in Eighteenth-century Spain
Title | Love Customs in Eighteenth-century Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Carmen Martín Gaite |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520070431 |
It was customary for the wife of a nobleman in eighteenth-century Spain to be courted fervently and seemingly forever, by a man who was not her husband. This liaison, accepted and even encouraged by the husband, was presumably platonic, though that may not always have been the case. It was carried on according to a complex, if ambiguous, code of companionship and whispered conversation. With the help of a lively blend of archival documents and literary sources, Carmen Martín Gaite admits us to the intricacies of the code and unravels its significance for the women who enjoyed the attention of a cortejo, or escort. Why was the cortejo tolerated, by society and by the woman's aristocratic family, even though it infringed traditional religious precepts? What did woman and her friend talk about at such length? Was their flirtation intellectual, reflecting the effects of Enlightenment rationalism on Spanish culture? Letters, memoirs, and travel journals as well as dramatic works of the period offer invaluable clues to the nature of these relationships, in which the woman was almost ritually adored and placed on a pedestal. The conversation, we learn, was generally frivolous, focusing on possessions and luxuries in a way that clearly signals economic change and the dawn of a material age. At the same time, the cortejo did represent a taste of symbolic liberation for women whose social lives were rigidly constrained. Clarifying details from a great variety of historical sources are presented with the urgency and fluidity of a novel in this excellent English translation -- Book jacket.
The Concept of Happiness in the Spanish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
Title | The Concept of Happiness in the Spanish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Robert McCormick |
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Pages | 212 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Eighteenth Century Strategies of Virtue
Title | Eighteenth Century Strategies of Virtue PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Lee Hartz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 1991 |
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