The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert

The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert

In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprise...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holmberg, Linn
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier 2014
Subjects:
the congregation of Saint-Maur
the Maurists
Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety
the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert
the Dictionnaire de Trévoux
history of science and ideas
history of encyclopedism
history of Monasticism
history of the book
the French Enlightenment
classification and organization of knowledge
Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts
microhistory
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