I have made a video (on my Youtube Channel) on the two famous paintings representing the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, attributed to Jean-Jacques Le Barbier (and his engraving). https://youtu.be/9wESIPLh7JQ Based on my article published in the art history journal POTESTAS, I combine art history and intellectual history to... Continue Reading →
https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/potestas/article/view/7824 I am very proud of my new article published by Potestas: 'Liberté, Légalité, Souveraineté: Changing Meanings of an Allegory in Le Barbier’s Representations of the Déclaration des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen'. I have been working on it every since winning a small grant generously offered by the University of Halle-Wittenberg's Interdisciplinary Centre... Continue Reading →
Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976. ABSTRACT This article analyses what Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) meant when he chose the name Anacharsis and called himself ‘Orator of the human race’. It argues that it was an act of self-fashioning by a foreigner in the French Revolution trying to find his place by representing... Continue Reading →
Avenel, Georges (1865), Anacharsis Cloots: L’orateur du genre humain, Paris : Librairie internationale. This is one of the very first biography existing on this not so well-known history character of the French Revolution, Anacharsis Cloots. The merit of this book is its weakness: the tone in which it is written. The author is writing in a... Continue Reading →
Dédéyan, Charles (1976) Le cosmopolitisme européen sous la Révolution et l’Empire. 2 vols. Paris: Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur. One of the rare books of intellectual history about cosmopolitanism in Europe. Written in French, it is focusing on the periods immediately after the Enlightenment: the French Revolution and the first Empire under Napoléon Bonaparte. It is... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 