Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski

Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski

The Enlightenment had dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies. Man's quest for ecstasy and transcendence flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the Romantic movement. By the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century this secular quest for salvation gave rise to a widespread desire for ideal communities. Adam Zamoyski traces how worship and dedication originally channelled through the church was refocused on the cause of the people and the nation. This dramatic journey begins in America in 1776 and goes right up to the last agony of the Paris Commune in 1871, taking in the French revolution, the Irish rebellion, the Polish risings, the war of Greek liberation, the Russian insurrection, Hungarian struggles for freedom, the liberation of South America and the Italian Risorgimento. On a vast canvas, Adam Zamoyski combines an exhilarating voyage through these spectacular events with illuminating portraits of the key players - Lafayette, Garibaldi, Lamartine, Kossuth, Mazzini, Napoleon, Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Coerlidge, Byron, Bakunin, Rousseau and Bolivar.

Adam Zamoyski was born in New York of Polish parents but has spent most of his life in England. He was educated at Downside and Queen's College, Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9781842121450
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Title	Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871
Author	Adam Zamoyski
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2001-02-15
Number of pages	512
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