Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe
豆瓣
An Episode in the History of the Humanities
Nicholas Hardy / Dmitri Levitin
简介
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.
目录
Preface
Contributors
1. Introduction: Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe: a comparative overview of a neglected episode in the history of the humanities, Dmitri Levitin
2. Juan Luis Vives and the organisation of patristic knowledge, Arnoud Visser
3. Matthew Parker and the practice of church history, Madeline McMahon
4. Scaliger's chronology: early patterns of reception, Anthony Grafton
5. Roman Catholic biblical scholarship in the age of confessions: the case of Lucas Holstenius and the Barberini circle, Nicholas Hardy
6. The Limits of Erudition: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-85) and the Mission of Writing History, Simon Ditchfield
7. Was an Eastern scholar necessarily a cultural broker in early modern academic Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628-1711), the Christian East, and oriental studies, Aurelien Girard
8. Confessional history and the authority of erudition: Bossuet, Burnet, and the English Reformation, Jean-Louis Quantin
9. Becoming heterodox in seventeenth-century Cambridge: the case of Isaac Newton, Dmitri Levitin and Scott Mandelbrote
10. Language of Paradise: Protestant oriental scholarship and the discovery of Arabic poetry, Jan Loop
Appendix I: Joseph Beaumont's Determination on Newton's theology disputation, February 1677