Secularisation and the Leiden Circle / / by Mark Somos.
This book shows how a group of early-seventeenth-century writers excluded theologically grounded argument from a wide range of disciplines, from the natural sciences to international relations. Somos uses richly contextualised portraits of Scaliger, Heinsius, Cunaeus and Grotius to develop a new mod...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill eBook titles
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (558 p.) |
| Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material
- Introduction
- Scaliger : History Comes of Age
- Heinsius: Enter Secularisation
- Cunaeus: Sophia’s Dream
- Grotius: From Bible Criticism to a Theory of War and Peace
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Excerpts from the exegetical tradition
- Bibliography
- Index.