In this groundbreaking study, Linn Holmberg provides new perspectives on the Enlightenment ‘dictionary wars’ and offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual reorientation of a monastic community in the Age of Reason. In mid-eighteenth-century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – began working on a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. At the same time, Diderot and D’Alembert started to compile the famous Encyclopédie. The Benedictines, however, never finished or published their work and the...

L’historiographie regroupe traditionnellement sous l’étiquette de ‘radicalisme’ les tenants de la réforme du parlement anglais à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, au risque de placer dans la même catégorie des figures aussi différentes que Richard Price, le pasteur ami du genre humain, et John Cartwright, le réformateur animé par l’amour de la patrie. Qu’ont en commun les divers groupes désignés comme radicaux? Telle est la question posée par Rémy Duthille dans cet ouvrage qui apporte une contribution originale aux débats actuels sur la nature du radicalisme dans...

The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In this book a group of specialists argue for the need to re-centre Linnaean science and de-centre Linnaeus the man by exploring the ideas, practices and people connected to his taxonomic innovations. Contributors examine the various techniques, materials and methods that originated within the ‘Linnaean workshop’: paper technologies, publication strategies, and markets for specimens. Fresh analyses of the reception...