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The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age : comparative approaches
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The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age : comparative approaches / edited by Dmitri Levitin and Ian Maclean.
ISBN
9789004462328
9004462325
9789004462335
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Physical Description
x, 446 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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. By adopting a comparative approach, this volume brings out some of the most important factors in explaining the contours of early modern intellectual life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2022
Series
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, volume 33
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Dmitri Levitin
National traditions in scholarship : the French and Dutch schools of classical scholarship at the turn of the eighteenth century / Floris Verhaart
Sex and the classics : the approaches of early modern humanists to ancient sexuality / Karen Hollewand
"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
The early modern study of ancient measures in comparative perspective : a preliminary investigation / Cesare Pastorino
The Pentateuch and the immortality of the soul in England and the Dutch Republic : the confessionalisation of a claim / Michelle Pfeffer
Sacred medicine in early modern Europe / Jetze Touber
The reception of Hippocrates by physicians at the end of the seventeenth century : a comparative study / Ian Maclean
What's in a name? Essenes, Therapeutae, and monks in the Christian imagination, c.1500-1700 / Jan Machielsen
Publishing a prohibited criticism : Richard Simon, Pierre Bayle, and erudition in late seventeenth-century intellectual culture / Timothy Twining
European scholarship on the formation of the New Testament canon, c.1700 : polemic, erudition, emulation / Dmitri Levitin.
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