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Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe : an episode in the history of the humanities
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"Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers...
"Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers the most comprehensive account thus far of the relationship between religious identity-formation and the history of knowledge in early modern Europe."--
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- Creator
- edited by Nicholas Hardy and Dmitri Levitin
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2019
- ©2019
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- ix, 434 pages : 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780197266601, 0197266606
- OCLC
- on1121193454
- Based on the proceedings of a one-day conference held at Trinity College, Cambridge, in September 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe : a comparative overview of a neglected episode in the history of the humanities / Dmitri Levitin -- Confessionalisation and the history of the humanities -- The Catholic world -- The reformed world -- The Lutheran world -- Conclusion : confessional conflict and intellectual change -- This volume -- Juan Luis Vives and the organisation of patristic knowledge / Arnoud Visser -- Matthew Parker and the practice of church history / Madeline McMahon -- Scaliger's chronology : early patterns of reception / Anthony Grafton -- Roman Catholic biblical scholarship in the age of confessions : the case of Lucas Holstenius and the Barberini circle / Nicholas Hardy -- The limits of erudition : Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the mission of writing history / Simon Ditchfield -- Was an Eastern scholar necessarily a cultural broker in early modern Europe? : Faustus Naironus (1628-1711), the Christian East, and oriental studies / Aurélien Girard -- Confessional history and the authority of erudition : Bossuet, Burnet, and the English Reformation / Jean-Louis Quantin -- Becoming heterodox in seventeenth-century Cambridge : the case of Isaac Newton / Dmitri Levitin, Scott Mandelbrote -- Language of paradise : Protestant oriental scholarship and the discovery of Arabic poetry / Jan Loop
Subjects
- Reformation -- Europe.
- Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.
- Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
- Religion and the humanities -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
- Religion and the humanities -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
- Creeds -- History -- 16th century.
- Creeds -- History -- 17th century.