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 Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] |
| Description | x, 446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Scientific 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021022230 |
| ISBN | 9789004462328 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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