Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Levitin, Dmitri
• Maclean, Ian, 1945-

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"--

Series Statement

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, 2352-1325 ; volume 33

Uniform Title

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 33.

Subject

• Learning and scholarship > Europe > History
• Civilization, Classical > Study and teaching > History. > Europe
• Civilization > Classical influences
• Civilization, Classical > Study and teaching
• Intellectual life
• Learning and scholarship
• Europe > Intellectual life
• Europe > Civilization > Classical influences
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 22-1753

ISBN

• 9789004462328
• 9004462325

LCCN

2021022230

OCLC

1246623073

Title

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

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, 2352-1325 ; volume 33

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 33.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Levitin, Dmitri, editor.

Maclean, Ian, 1945- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004462335 (DLC) 2021022231

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1753