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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIts chapters stand individually as worthy contributions, including the highly detailed treatment of regional trends in confessionalization offered in Dmitri Levitin's introduction. * Jason E. Cohen, Reformation *
Table of ContentsPreface Contributors 1: Dmitri Levitin: Introduction: Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe: a comparative overview of a neglected episode in the history of the humanities 2: Arnoud Visser: Juan Luis Vives and the organisation of patristic knowledge 3: Madeline McMahon: Matthew Parker and the practice of church history 4: Anthony Grafton: Scaliger's chronology: early patterns of reception 5: Nicholas Hardy: Roman Catholic biblical scholarship in the age of confessions: the case of Lucas Holstenius and the Barberini circle 6: Simon Ditchfield: The Limits of Erudition: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-85) and the Misson of Writing History 7: Aurélien Girard: Was an Eastern Scholar Necessarily a Cultural Broker in Early Modern Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628-1711), the Christian East, and oriental studies 8: Jean-Louis Quantin: Confessional history and the authority of erudition: Bossuet, Burnet, and the English Reformation 9: Dmitri Levitin and Scott Mandelbrote: Becoming heterodox in seventeenth-century Cambridge: the case of Isaac Newton 10: Jan Loop: Language of Paradise: Protestant oriental scholarship and the discovery of Arabic poetry Appendix I: Joseph Beaumont's Determination on Newton's theology disputation, February 1677
