The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia - Hardcover
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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions--some only recently discovered--provide...
Paul Freedman is the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of several books on the Middle Ages and on the history of food and cuisine, including The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, Out of the East, and Ten Restaurants That Changed America.
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