Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9780226042640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 296 str.

Barbara M. Benedict

Opis

Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait which was often depicted as an unsavoury form of transgression or cultural ambition.