Professor Richard Scholar's Outputs (2)

Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking (2010)
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Scholar, R. (2010). Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking. Peter Lang Oxford

We know a great deal of what Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Shakespeare’s near-contemporary and fellow literary mastermind, thinks. We know, because he tells us on page after page of his Essais, which have marked literature and thought since the Euro... Read More about Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking.

Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800 (2010)
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Scholar, R., & Tadié, A. (Eds.). (2010). Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800. Ashgate Publishing

The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern Eu... Read More about Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800.