Ernest Renan
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
M. Renan · Renan
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Author of 'Souvenirs d'Enfance', describing Breton nobles.
Renan is publishing in the Revue des Deux Mondes, he describes a class of territorial nobles who were found in Brittany, just before the Revolution, and who were quite distinct from the later nobility of royal creation.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Scholar credited with finding village-communities among obscure Semitic tribes.
Renan has discovered them among the obscurer Semitic tribes in Northern Africa.
The Genius of the Common Law
Scholar credited with suggesting that the biblical story of Ahab and Naboth is a sacerdotal libel.
It has been suggested, I think by Renan, that the story of Ahab and Naboth, as we have it, is a sacerdotal libel, and Ahab was an enlightened ruler who tried to introduce ‘expropriation pour cause d’utilité publiquè’ to a generation too backward to understand it.