Category: Enlightenment
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Who’s On Your Fantasy Xmas Dinner Guest List?
As much as I love my parents-in-law (ahem, of course I do) if I had the chance to select ANY guests for my Christmas dinner, you know a ‘fantasy Christmas dinner’, they wouldn’t be on the list. Let me tell you who I would invite. And of course, they’re all…
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On the Hunt With a Boswell Guidebook
I’m aware that when I travel around Scotland I’m often crossing the path of my literary hero, James Boswell. The most recent example was while I was travelling north up the east coast of Scotland…something Boswell and Samuel Johnson did, but in a carriage, in 1773. I made a short…
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Scottish Enlightenment? Herman: Yes! Porter: …no
Popular history authors Roy Porter and Arthur Herman have opposing views on whether or not there was a Scottish Enlightenment. American Arthur Herman says there was, and to back it up wrote a book called The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World. British Roy Porter says there…
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A Fan of Genius
Genius Fan is a portal to the Age of Genius: that’s 1700-1799, the Mighty Eighteenth century, the Enlightenment. Bow down before its accomplishments and tremble at the potency of its ideas…hiding under the table will not protect you from its impact. You will only benefit. This was an age when…
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