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Hace 2 días · William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long ...
Hace 3 días · The leaders of the Enlightenment were not especially democratic, as they more often look to absolute monarchs as the key to imposing reforms designed by the intellectuals. Voltaire despised democracy and said the absolute monarch must be enlightened and must act as dictated by reason and justice—in other words, be a "philosopher-king."
Hace 2 días · Artist Erin Finley unpacks the latest royal portraits of King Charles and the Princess of Wales, and what the reaction to them says about the divided times we live in.
Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe. London, Pickering and Chatto, 2012, ISBN: 9781848931985; 320pp.; Price: £60.00. The idea of an age of absolutism has lately fallen out of fashion, for several reasons. The word absolutism was coined only in the 19th century and the concept of a generic absolutist model can easily obscure ...
Hace 3 días · The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.There is no exact date that marks the beginning or end of the period and its timeline may vary depending on the area of history being studied. In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th ...
Hace 3 días · Ultimately, the Age of Enlightenment symbolized the triumph of rationality, innovation, and scientific inquiry over superstition and tradition. It illuminated the path towards modernity, shaping the course of human history. Top image: Reading of Voltaire's tragedy of the Orphan of China in the salon of Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin in 1755, by ...
Hace 2 días · Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (2013) First volume in the already canonical space opera set in the Radch Empire (expansionist, like all empires). Breq is an ancillary, a human body that acts as an extension of the hive mind AI that controls the empire, or a bit of the consciousness of a starship (these amount to the same thing, I think: it’s confusing), and the only survivor of a starship ...
