History of Scholarship: A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

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. - ;The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and The Colossus Of Rhodes : Ancient Texts And Modern Representations / G. De Callatay -- Renaissance Philology : Johannes Livineius (1546-1599) And The Birth Of The Apparatus Criticus / L. Battezzato -- The Measure Of Rome : André Schott, Justus Lipsius And The Early Reception Of The Res Gestae Divi Augusti / P. Nelles -- Critice In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries And The Rise Of The Notion Of Historical Criticism / B. Bravo -- Early Christianity In Michael Neander's Greek-latin Edition Of Luther's Catechism / I. Backus -- A Sixteenth-century Hebraic Approach To The New Testament / J. Weinberg -- Robert Bellarmine, Christian Hebraist And Censor / P. Van Boxel -- Spencer, Maimonides, And The History Of Religion / F. Parente -- Anglican Scholarship Gone Mad? : Henry Dodwell (1641-1711) And Christian Antiquity / J.-l. Quantin -- A German Spinozistic Reader Of Cudworth, Bull, And Spencer : Johann George Wachter And His Theologia Martyrum (1712) -- M. Mulsow -- Pierre Des Maizeaux : History, Toleration, And Scholarship / S. Mandelbrote -- The Pre-adamites : An Abortive Attempt To Invent Pre-history In The Seventeenth Century? / A. Schnapp -- Hamann And The History Of Philosophy / D. Thouard -- Theory And Methodology Of History From Chladenius To Droysen : A Historiographical Essay / A. Escudier. Edited By C.r. Ligota And J.-l. Quantin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.Theauthors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religious history. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism andphilology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteeenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy; and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Thischallenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right."-- The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.The authors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religious history. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism and philology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteeenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy; and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This challenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right.