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  • Spying under Louis XV

    • December 26, 2021
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    An extract from Dave’s article ‘Spies’. “In addition to the heads of le Secret du Roi, there were a number of other very notable characters.  There was Comte de Saint-Germain, for example, described by Casanova, in a classic pot-calling-the-kettle-black moment, as ‘the king of imposters’.  Saint-Germain was an extraordinary, multi-talented, adventurer who claimed, amongst other things,
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  • Scholasticism

    • November 13, 2021
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    An extract on scholasticism from Dave’s article ‘Enlightenment Roots - Introduction’. “From the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century the system of thought that dominated European schools and universities was known as ‘Aristotelian scholasticism’, or just ‘scholasticism’. In the thirteenth century, St Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1274) and his followers demonstrated that
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  • Cabbala

    • September 4, 2021
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    An extract from Dave’s article ‘Cabbala’, a form of Jewish mysticism the practise of which fascinated Casanova throughout his life. “Cabbala sprang from Judaism and sought to explain the nature of creation and existence and, in particular, its relationship with its creator.  Cabbalists investigated classical Jewish literature to find concealed inner meanings, using a range
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