History of Scholarship

A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute

Edited by Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin

Oxford-Warburg Studies

Rich, informative, and magnificently learned

History of Scholarship

A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute

Edited by Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin

Description

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.

History of Scholarship

A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute

Edited by Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin

Oxford-Warburg Studies

Introduction, Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin
1. 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
Index

History of Scholarship

A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute

Edited by Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin

Oxford-Warburg Studies

Author Information

Contributors:

Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin (Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study/Professor of the History of Early Modern Scholarship, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Paris)
Godefroid de Callataÿ (Professor of Islamic Studies, Institut Orientaliste, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Luigi Battezzato (Professor of Greek Literature, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)
Paul Nelles (Associate Professor of History, Carleton University, Ottawa)
Benedetto Bravo (Professor Emeritus, Institute of History, University of Warsaw)
Irena Backus (Titular Professor of the History of the Reformation, Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation, Université
de Genève)
Joanna Weinberg (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
Piet van Boxel (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
Fausto Parente (Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Christianity, Seconda Università di Roma (Tor Vergata)
Jean-Louis Quantin (Professor of the History of Early Modern Scholarship, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Paris)
Martin Mulsow (Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Scott Mandelbrote (Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford)
Alain Schnapp (Professor of Classical Archaeology, Université de Paris I - Sorbonne
Denis Thouard (Chercheur at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Lille)/Sonderforschungsbereich 'Frühe Neuzeit' (Munich)
Alexandre Escudier (docteur ès letters, is chargé de recherche at the Centre de Recherches Politiques (CEVIPOF) of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris)