The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age

Comparative Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46232-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 884 g

Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levitin, Dmitri

Maclean, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Dmitri Levitin



I. 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

II. 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

Philipp Nothaft

4. The early modern investigation of ancient measures: 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

III. MEDICINE

6. Sacred medicine in early modern Europe

Jetze Touber

7. The reception of Hippocrates by experimental philosophers and physicians at the end of the seventeenth century: a comparative study

Ian Maclean

IV. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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).