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The 11 pages that link to Michel de Montaigne, each with the reason it gives.

• PlutarchRelated: Montaigne admired Plutarch and adopted his essayistic range and attention to particular lives.

• RelativismRelated: His comparisons of customs challenged confidence in supposedly universal standards.

• Seneca the YoungerRelated: Montaigne repeatedly cites Seneca and adapts his moral reflection into essay form.

• AphorismRelated: His reflective essays often turn personal inquiry into concise, memorable judgments.

• EssayRelated: His experiments in self-examination helped define the essay as exploratory prose.

• LucretiusRelated: Montaigne drew on Lucretius while examining human judgment and the limits of knowledge.

• French Renaissance literatureRelated: His evolving essay form made personal inquiry a major literary mode in French.

• Noble savageRelated: His essay on cannibals challenged European assumptions about whose customs were civilized.

• Richard HakluytCompared with: His essay “Of Cannibals” complicates the imperial assumptions common in contemporary European accounts.

• NeostoicismRelated: His essays show a major early modern engagement with Stoic ethics outside Lipsius’s system.

• Julian BarnesRelated: Barnes’s essays share Montaigne’s exploratory movement between personal experience and ideas.