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

Other author Levitin, Dmitri.
Other author Maclean, Ian, 1945-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Descriptionx, 446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesScientific and learned cultures and their institutions, 2352-1325 ; volume 33
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.
Abstract "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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