The book that changed Europe
Subtitle: Picart and Bernard's Religious ceremonies of the world
By: Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Wijnand Mijnhardt.
Contributors: Jacob, Margaret C., 1943-; Mijnhardt, W. W., 1950-
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Belknap Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674049284
Subjects: Picart, Bernard, -- 1673-1733; Bernard, Jean Frédéric, -- d. 1752; Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde; Religions -- Early works to 1800; Rites and ceremonies -- Early works to 1800
Description: "Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A marketplace for religious ideas; title: Bernard Picart: religious and artistic journeys; title: Why Holland?; title: Jean Frederic Bernard: the tumultuous life of a refugee; title: Publisher; title: A writer's mental universe; title: Picart's visual politics; title: Familiarizing Judaism; title: Cutting Roman Catholicism down to size; title: Idolatry: West and East; title: Rehabilitating Islam; title: Dissent, deism, and atheism.