{"product_id":"the-worlds-of-knowledge-and-the-classical-tradition-in-the-early-modern-age-comparative-approaches-9789004462328","title":"The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age: Comparative Approaches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. 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. An international team of scholars explores the differences and similarities – across time and place – in how the study and use of ancient texts and ideas shaped a wide range of fields: nascent classics, sexuality, chronology, metrology, the study of the soul, medicine, the history of Judaeo-Christian interaction, and biblical criticism. By adopting a comparative approach, this volume brings out some of the most important factors in explaining the contours of early modern intellectual life.     Contributors: Karen Hollewand, Dmitri Levitin, Jan Machielsen, Ian Maclean, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Cesare Pastorino, Michelle Pfeffer, Jetze Touber, Timothy Twining, and Floris Verhaart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures     Introduction    Dmitri Levitin    PART 1  Secular Classical Scholarship    1  National Traditions in Scholarship   The French and Dutch Schools of Classical Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century    Floris Verhaart    2 Sex and the Classics   The Approaches of Early Modern Humanists to Ancient Sexuality    Karen Hollewand    PART 2  The Arts    3 “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    4 The Early Modern Study of Ancient Measures in Comparative Perspective   A Preliminary Investigation    Cesare Pastorino    5 The Pentateuch and the Immortality of the Soul in England and the Dutch Republic   The Confessionalisation of a Claim    Michelle Pfeffer    PART 3  Medicine    6 Sacred Medicine in Early Modern Europe    Jetze Touber    7 The Reception of Hippocrates by Physicians at the End of the Seventeenth Century   A Comparative Study    Ian Maclean    PART 4  Theology    8 What’s in a Name? Essenes, Therapeutae, and Monks in the Christian Imagination, c.1500–1700    Jan Machielsen    9 Publishing a Prohibited Criticism   Richard Simon, Pierre Bayle, and Erudition in Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Culture    Timothy Twining    10 European Scholarship on the Formation of the New Testament Canon, c.1700   Polemic, Erudition, Emulation    Dmitri Levitin    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210821820759,"sku":"9789004462328","price":128.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-worlds-of-knowledge-and-the-classical-tradition-in-the-early-modern-age-comparative-approaches-9789004462328","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}