The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age
Comparative Approaches
Published on 29. July 2021
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Hardback
456 pages
978-90-04-46232-8 (ISBN)
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Recent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age is the first attempt to adopt a comparative approach to this phenomenon. An international team of scholars explores the differences and similarities - across time and place - in how the study and use of ancient texts and ideas shaped a wide range of fields: nascent classics, sexuality, chronology, metrology, the study of the soul, medicine, the history of Judaeo-Christian interaction, and biblical criticism. By adopting a comparative approach, this volume brings out some of the most important factors in explaining the contours of early modern intellectual life.
Contributors: Karen Hollewand, Dmitri Levitin, Jan Machielsen, Ian Maclean, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Cesare Pastorino, Michelle Pfeffer, Jetze Touber, Timothy Twining, and Floris Verhaart.
Contributors: Karen Hollewand, Dmitri Levitin, Jan Machielsen, Ian Maclean, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Cesare Pastorino, Michelle Pfeffer, Jetze Touber, Timothy Twining, and Floris Verhaart.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
807 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-46232-8 (9789004462328)
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Dmitri Levitin is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He works on the history of pre-modern knowledge; his most recent monograph is entitled The Kingdom of Darkness (Cambridge, 2021).
Ian Maclean is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and an honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews. He works on the intellectual traditions of the higher disciplines, and on book history. His most recent monograph is Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020).
Ian Maclean is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and an honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews. He works on the intellectual traditions of the higher disciplines, and on book history. His most recent monograph is Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020).
Content
List of Figures
?Introduction
??Dmitri?? ??Levitin??????
PART 1??
Secular Classical Scholarship?
1??National Traditions in Scholarship
?The French and Dutch Schools of Classical Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century???
??Floris?? ??Verhaart??????
2?Sex and the Classics
?The Approaches of Early Modern Humanists to Ancient Sexuality???
??Karen?? ??Hollewand???????
PART 2??
The Arts?
3?"Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth"
?Chronological Debates over the Period of Christ's Rest in the Tomb in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries???
??C. Philipp E. Nothaft??????
4?The Early Modern Study of Ancient Measures in Comparative Perspective
?A Preliminary Investigation???
??Cesare?? ??Pastorino??????
5?The Pentateuch and the Immortality of the Soul in England and the Dutch Republic
?The Confessionalisation of a Claim???
??Michelle?? ??Pfeffer???????
PART 3??
Medicine?
6?Sacred Medicine in Early Modern Europe
??Jetze?? ??Touber??????
7?The Reception of Hippocrates by Physicians at the End of the Seventeenth Century
?A Comparative Study???
??Ian?? ??Maclean???????
PART 4??
Theology?
8?What's in a Name? Essenes, Therapeutae?, and Monks in the Christian Imagination, c?.1500-1700
??Jan?? ??Machielsen??????
9?Publishing a Prohibited Criticism
?Richard Simon, Pierre Bayle, and Erudition in Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Culture???
??Timothy?? ??Twining??????
10?European Scholarship on the Formation of the New Testament Canon, c.?1700
?Polemic, Erudition, Emulation???
??Dmitri?? ??Levitin???????
Index
?Introduction
??Dmitri?? ??Levitin??????
PART 1??
Secular Classical Scholarship?
1??National Traditions in Scholarship
?The French and Dutch Schools of Classical Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century???
??Floris?? ??Verhaart??????
2?Sex and the Classics
?The Approaches of Early Modern Humanists to Ancient Sexuality???
??Karen?? ??Hollewand???????
PART 2??
The Arts?
3?"Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth"
?Chronological Debates over the Period of Christ's Rest in the Tomb in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries???
??C. Philipp E. Nothaft??????
4?The Early Modern Study of Ancient Measures in Comparative Perspective
?A Preliminary Investigation???
??Cesare?? ??Pastorino??????
5?The Pentateuch and the Immortality of the Soul in England and the Dutch Republic
?The Confessionalisation of a Claim???
??Michelle?? ??Pfeffer???????
PART 3??
Medicine?
6?Sacred Medicine in Early Modern Europe
??Jetze?? ??Touber??????
7?The Reception of Hippocrates by Physicians at the End of the Seventeenth Century
?A Comparative Study???
??Ian?? ??Maclean???????
PART 4??
Theology?
8?What's in a Name? Essenes, Therapeutae?, and Monks in the Christian Imagination, c?.1500-1700
??Jan?? ??Machielsen??????
9?Publishing a Prohibited Criticism
?Richard Simon, Pierre Bayle, and Erudition in Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Culture???
??Timothy?? ??Twining??????
10?European Scholarship on the Formation of the New Testament Canon, c.?1700
?Polemic, Erudition, Emulation???
??Dmitri?? ??Levitin???????
Index