The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age

Dmitri Levitin is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He works on the history of pre-modern knowledge; his most recent monograph is entitled The Kingdom of Darkness (Cambridge, 2021). Ian Maclean is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and an honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews. He works on the intellectual traditions of the higher disciplines, and on book history. His most recent monograph is Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020).

List 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