Synopses & Reviews
The history of scholarship has recently undergone a complete renewal: it is now a major branch of research. The contributors--all specialists of international standing--illustrate a variety of themes and approaches. A substantial introduction surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.
Table of Contents
Introduction,
Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin1. The Colossus of Rhodes: Ancient Texts and Modern Representations, Godefroid de Callataÿ
2. Renaissance Philology: Johannes Livineius (1546-1599) and the Birth of the Apparatus Criticus, Luigi Battezzato
3. The Measure of Rome: Justus Lipsius, André Schott, and the Reception of the Resgestae divi Augusti, Paul Nelles
4. Critice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and the Rise of the Notion of Historical Criticism, Benedetto Bravo
5. Early Christianity in Michael Neander's Greek-Latin Edition of Luther's Catechism, Irena Backus
6. A Sixteenth-Century Hebraic Approach to the New Testament, Joanna Weinberg
7. Robert Bellarmine, Christian Hebraist and Censor, Piet van Boxel
8. Spencer, Maimonides, and the History of Religion, Fausto Parente
9. Anglican Scholarship Gone Mad? Henry Dodwell (1641-1711) and Christian Antiquity, Jean-Louis Quantin
10. A German Spinozistic Reader of Cudworth, Bull, and Spencer: Johann Georg Wachter and his Theologia martyrum (1712), Martin Mulsow
11. Pierre Des Maizeaux: History, Toleration, and Scholarship, Scott Mandelbrote
12. The Preadamites: An Abortive Attempt to Invent Pre-history in the Seventeenth Century?, Alain Schnapp
13. Hamann and the History of Philosophy, Denis Thouard
14. Theory and Methodology of History from Chladenius to Droysen: A Historiographical Essay, Alexandre Escudier
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