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  • ‘Women and Enlightenment Science’

    • June 18, 2022
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    Very informative and interesting Melvyn Bragg podcast: ‘Women and Enlightenment Science’   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here. #enlightenment #eighteenthcentury #women
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  • ‘Broken on the wheel’

    • January 29, 2022
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      Of the complaints against the Ancien Regime from those in the vanguard of the Enlightenment, very high on the list was the cruel and arbitrary nature of the legal system.   In his memoirs, Casanova describes the notorious execution of Robert Damiens as an ‘offence to our common humanity’.  A case that in some ways
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  • The Encyclopédie

    • January 22, 2022
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      A fascinating Melvyn Bragg BBC podcast on the Encyclopédie, that embodiment of the Enlightenment and product of the intellectual hothouse that was Paris at the time (and which supposedly inspired Robert Damiens to attempt to assassinate Louis XV). However, good as it is, the podcast was broadcast in 2006 and does contain comments on
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