Le thème des croisades et l' héritage des Lumières au début du 19 siécle
- Autores: David J. Denby
- Localización: La franc-maçonnerie: Dix-Hutiéme siécle 1987, 1987, ISBN 2130414532, págs. 411-422
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
The true horizon of the debate in three little-known texts on the Crusades from the period 1805-1822 is the historical importance of Enlightenment values in the post-Revolutionary world. Mme Cottin's Mathilde dramatises a conflict between love and religion, happiness and renunciation, which remains unresolved and ideologically undetermined. In Michaud's Histoire des croisades, an ultra reading of the Crusades, a dichotomy emerges between a nostalgic, reactionary absorption in the past and an anachronistic, critical presentation of past values. Vernes's explicit rewriting of Cottin reveals the persistence and adaptation of 18th-century models : the love-story is the bearer of values of democracy, laicity and happiness, and the novel functions as a novel af education.
