Critical Monks : : The German Benedictines, 1680-1740 / / By Dr. Thomas Wallnig.
Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe. Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (378 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface: How to Read This Book
- "Germania Benedictina"
- Multiple Perspectives - on the Same Object?
- Knowledge, Institution and Conflict in the Benedictine Context
- Tropes and Metaphors of Monastic Knowledge
- A Reclassification of Knowledge?
- Conclusions, Inheritances, Limits, Confessions
- Illustrations
- Back Matter
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index of Persons and Works.