Michael R Lynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1040184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Lynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynn |
| SIGNATURE | LYNN M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University Northwest |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Witches of St. Osyth: Persecution, Betrayal and Murder in Elizabethan England
L’imprimé en Europe occidentale, 1470–1680
Wonders Never Cease: Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Curiosities in Early Modern France
This article argues for the continuity of belief in wonders from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through the Enlightenment. Even as confidence in magic and witchcraft supposedly waned, popular interest in wonders (including creatures like werewolves and vampires) continued to occupy a significant place in eighteenth-century culture. Max Weber’s notion of disenchantment never fully materialized leaving a more complicated picture of the dev…
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World
Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory
Interpreting Early Modern Europe
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France
The Sun King’s Atlantic: Drugs, Demons and Dyestuff’s in the Atlantic World, 1640–1730
The Curious Science: Chiromancy in Early Modern France
People in early modern France had access to a wide variety of books discussing the theory and practice of chiromancy (the divinatory art of reading the lines on the hand). As part of the larger practice of physiognomy, but more common than those practices related to other parts of the body such as metoposcopy or podomancy, chiromancy was a readily accessible form of divination. Often related to judicial astrology, it treated the hand as a microco…
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France
The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800
Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards
The revolt of the Camisards, which took place at the end of the long reign of Louis XIV, presents a complex interweaving of religious and political history at local and national levels. This rebell
Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order
Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast , by Jay M . Smith
From Artisan to Worker: Guilds, the French State, and the Organization of Labor, 1776-1821 , by Michael P. Fitzsimmons
"Inventing "Easter Island
L’Enquête du Régent 1716–1718: Sciences, techniques et politique dans la France pré-industrielle (review)
Reviewed by: L’Enquête du Régent 1716–1718: Sciences, techniques et politique dans la France pré-industrielle Michael R. Lynn (bio) L’Enquête du Régent 1716–1718: Sciences, techniques et politique dans la France pré-industrielle. Edited by Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère and David J. Sturdy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008. Pp. 1,018. €100. When Louis XIV finally died in 1715, his great-grandson was crowned Louis XV. He was too young to rule dir…
John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and "Early Enlightenment" Europe
Louis XIV face à l'Europe du Nord: L'absolutisme vaincu par les libertés
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merch…
Consumerism and the Rise of Balloons in Europe at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Argument The history of ballooning has received considerable attention from historians examining the technological innovations behind it as well as from scholars interested in aeronautical anecdotes concerning launches and disasters. The cultural importance of this new machine, however, remains less fully analyzed. This essay explores one facet of that history through a discussion of the commodification of launches in France and Great Britain. Th…
Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate
The Occult in Mediaeval Europe, 500-1500: A Documentary History
Divining the Enlightenment: Public Opinion and Popular Science in Old Regime France
This essay explores the interconnections between the use of divining rods, a practice known as dowsing or rabdomancy, and the Enlightenment in France. The use of divining rods to find underground waters and minerals underwent considerable scrutiny in the 1690s after Jacques Aymar claimed that he could also track murderers and thieves. The subsequent debate, which engaged astrologers, doctors, theologians, and savants, reveals the tensions in Fren…
Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie des Sciences, 1666-1750
Part 1 The 1660s in context: the scientific context the political context the context of patronage. Part 2 The foundation of the Academie des Sciences and its first: Colbert and the foundation of the academie in 1666 the founder members of the Academie des Sciences - those with backgrounds in law Roberval and Duclos the majority - academicians in their 40s the Eleves the founder members in retrospect. Part 3 Members of the academie, 1666-1698: th…
The Curious Science: Chiromancy in Early Modern France
People in early modern France had access to a wide variety of books discussing the theory and practice of chiromancy (the divinatory art of reading the lines on the hand). As part of the larger practice of physiognomy, but more common than those practices related to other parts of the body such as metoposcopy or podomancy, chiromancy was a readily accessible form of divination. Often related to judicial astrology, it treated the hand as a microco…
Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France
Research Article| April 01 2006 Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France Michael R. Lynn Michael R. Lynn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael R. Lynn; Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of F…
Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie des Sciences, 1666-1750
Part 1 The 1660s in context: the scientific context the political context the context of patronage. Part 2 The foundation of the Academie des Sciences and its first: Colbert and the foundation of the academie in 1666 the founder members of the Academie des Sciences - those with backgrounds in law Roberval and Duclos the majority - academicians in their 40s the Eleves the founder members in retrospect. Part 3 Members of the academie, 1666-1698: th…
The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership, 1585-1715
The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500-1760: From Solid Heavens to Boundless Aether
Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800: Three Seasons in European History
The Fashion for Physics: Public Lecture Courses in Enlightenment France
Notes1. Affiches de Paris, 21 November 1754, 717. In 1762, the Avant‐coureur claimed that Nollet had already offered 147 classes in the previous 26 years; Avant‐coureur, 8 March 1762, 148‐49.2. Voltaire to Pierre Robert Le Cornier de Cideville, [16 April] 1735, in Voltaire, Correspondance, ed. Theodore Besterman, vol. 87 (Geneva, 1965), 132.3. Jean‐Baptiste Pujoulx, Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1801), 33‐34.4. This cliché could be foun…
Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women, by Jolanta T. Pekacz
"Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women, by Jolanta T. Pekacz." Canadian Journal of History, 36(2), pp. 346–347
Divining the Enlightenment: Public Opinion and Popular Science in Old Regime France
This essay explores the interconnections between the use of divining rods, a practice known as dowsing or rabdomancy, and the Enlightenment in France. The use of divining rods to find underground waters and minerals underwent considerable scrutiny in the 1690s after Jacques Aymar claimed that he could also track murderers and thieves. The subsequent debate, which engaged astrologers, doctors, theologians, and savants, reveals the tensions in Fren…
Pierre Bayle's Reformation: Conscience and Criticism on the Eve of the Enlightenment
Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
Fractured Europe, 1600-1721
At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
Book synopsis: What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: anim…
Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle
Paris in the Age of Absolutism: An Essay
Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry
A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate
The Occult in Mediaeval Europe, 500-1500: A Documentary History
Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France
Research Article| April 01 2006 Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France Michael R. Lynn Michael R. Lynn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael R. Lynn; Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of F…
A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France , by James R. Farr
"A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France, by James R. Farr." Canadian Journal of History, 41(2), pp. 359–360
John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and "Early Enlightenment" Europe
Louis XIV face à l'Europe du Nord: L'absolutisme vaincu par les libertés
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merch…
Consumerism and the Rise of Balloons in Europe at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Argument The history of ballooning has received considerable attention from historians examining the technological innovations behind it as well as from scholars interested in aeronautical anecdotes concerning launches and disasters. The cultural importance of this new machine, however, remains less fully analyzed. This essay explores one facet of that history through a discussion of the commodification of launches in France and Great Britain. Th…
L’Enquête du Régent 1716–1718: Sciences, techniques et politique dans la France pré-industrielle (review)
Reviewed by: L’Enquête du Régent 1716–1718: Sciences, techniques et politique dans la France pré-industrielle Michael R. Lynn (bio) L’Enquête du Régent 1716–1718: Sciences, techniques et politique dans la France pré-industrielle. Edited by Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère and David J. Sturdy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008. Pp. 1,018. €100. When Louis XIV finally died in 1715, his great-grandson was crowned Louis XV. He was too young to rule dir…
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