OEuvres Completes De Voltaire: Essai Sur Les Moeurs Et L'esprit Des Nations: v. 22

ISBN-13: 9780729408745 / Francuski / Miękka / 2009

Opis

In his account of human progress, Voltaire discusses China, India and the near East before accounting for the rise of Christianity - a blatant repudiation of the primacy of sacred history adhered to by his predecessors. His global perspective begins in the East, not the West, and charts the earliest stages of social development, using information sent back to Europe by Christian missionaries. He draws on both Catholic and Protestant scholarship in re-telling the history of western Europe since Charlemagne, showing the progress of post-Roman Europe in commerce, government and the arts as far surpassing the achievements of ancient Rome.