The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age : : comparative approaches /

The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age : : comparative approaches / / edited by Dmitri Levitin and Ian Maclean.

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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...

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Superior document:Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 33
TeilnehmendeR:
Maclean, Ian, 1945-
Levitin, Dmitri,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (456 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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