Patrons of Enlightenment
All major writers of the Enlightenment enjoyed royal or aristocratic patronage, often denying their financial dependency and claiming to live by the labours of their pens or by the expanding readership of the eighteenth century, thereby maintaining the ideal of intellectual autonomy.
In Patrons of Enlightenment, Edward G. Andrew examines the conditions in which the central idea of Enlightenment was...
All major writers of the Enlightenment enjoyed royal or aristocratic patronage, often denying their financial dependency and claiming to live by the labours of their pens or by the expanding readership of the eighteenth century, thereby maintaining the ideal of intellectual autonomy.
In Patrons of Enlightenment, Edward G. Andrew examines the conditions in which the central idea of Enlightenment was...
