Intellectual and Political Elites of the Enlightenment
Edited by Tatiana V. Artemyeva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin
VOLUME 16
Published in 2014
by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland
ISSN 1796-2986
ISBN 978-951-51-0539-4
© Editor & Contributors 2014
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COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Cover picture: Louis XIV Visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Intellectual and Political Elites of the Enlightenment
Edited by Tatiana V. Artemyeva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin
Contents
Intellectual and Political Elites of the Enlightenment: Some Introductory Notes Tatiana V. Artemyeva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin
Enlightened Monarchy and Enlightened Monarchs
“Enlightened Monarchy” in Practice. Reforms, Ceremonies, Self-fashioning and the Entanglement of Ideals and Values in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Henrika Tandefelt
The Travels of Joseph II in Hungary, Transylvania, Slavonia and the Banat of Temesvar, 1768–1773 Krisztina Kulcsár
Useful Lies: The Limits of Enlightening the Common Man. Frederick the Great and Franco-German Cultural Transfer
Nicholas Treuherz
Intellectual Networks in the Enlightenment
The Social Role of an Enlightened German Philosopher: Christian Wolff (1679–1754) in His Correspondence with Ernst Christoph Count of Manteuffel
Hanns-Peter Neumann
The Professor and the Body Politic: Pehr Kalm and the Social Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century Turku
Mathias Persson
Illuminism in the Age of Minerva: Pyotr Ivanovich Melissino (1726–1797) and High-Degree Freemasonry in Catherine the Great’s Russia, 1762–1782
Robert Collis
Policy and History
Simon Vorontsov and the Ochakov Crisis of 1791 Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff
The Idea of History in Russia and Walter Scott’s Historical Narratives Tatiana V. Artemyeva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin
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