Classical learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750 : beyond the ancients and the moderns
Floris Verhaart examines how scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defended the relevance of classical learning after the emergence of rationalism and empiricism called the authority of the ancients into question.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2020
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Oxford Historical Monographs
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| Schlagworte: | Classical philology-Study and teaching Classical philology Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Floris Verhaart examines how scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defended the relevance of classical learning after the emergence of rationalism and empiricism called the authority of the ancients into question. Cover -- Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- A Forgotten Controversy -- Classical Texts in an Age of Culture Wars -- A Perspective on the Culture Wars Based on Classical Learning -- The Dutch School of Criticism -- The French Approach -- Geographical Focus -- Advantages of This Approach -- Methodology -- Chapter 2: The Construction of Humanism -- Chapter 3: Struggle for Scholarly Independence -- Chapter 4: The Quest for Civic Virtue -- 2 The Construction of Humanism -- Previous History -- Burman and Lipsius -- Mourning the Death of French Philologia: Henri Valois -- Burman and Buchanan: Avoiding Politics -- Le Clerc's Erasmus -- Conclusion -- 3 Sex and Scholarship: Textual Criticism as an Instrument in the Struggle for Scholarly Independence -- A Troublesome Working Environment: Pieter Burman and his Difficult Relationship with the Theologians of Utrecht -- The Preface to the Edition -- The Commentary -- A Widower, a Maid, and a Novelist -- Bentley Gets Involved -- A Master and his Fellows -- Horace and the Bentleys -- Bentley's Textual Criticism Used as a Weapon Against Him -- Are Philologists Immoral? -- Conclusion -- 4 The Quest for Civic Virtue -- Conyers Middleton's Career until 1734: Idealism and Opportunism -- Middleton's Life of Cicero: Indebtedness to French Scholarship -- Middleton's Life of Cicero: The Creation of a Deist Saint -- Fallen between Two Stools? The Reception of Middleton's History of the Life of Cicero -- A Walpolean Manifesto -- A House with Many Rooms? Cicero and the Socratic War in Europe -- A Jansenist's Perspective on the Ancient World: Charles Rollin -- Different Views, Similar Effects: The Influence of Middleton's Life and Rollin's Histoires. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780192606181 0192606182 9780198861690 0198861699 |