Nicholas Hardy and Dmitri Levitin (eds), Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: An Episode in the History of the Humanities , Proceedings of the British Academy, 2019
The edition of Augustine’s City of God by the Spanish-born humanist Juan Luis Vives (first publis... more The edition of Augustine’s City of God by the Spanish-born humanist Juan Luis Vives (first published in 1522) is one of most successful pieces of patristic scholarship of the sixteenth century. Produced just before the explosive escalation of the Reformation, it remained the key version of the text for over a hundred years. This article analyses the presentation of patristic knowledge in Vives’ commentary to explore how the confessional conflicts affected patristic scholarship. It argues that Vives’ work survived the confessional pressures relatively unscathed because it made Augustine’s work manageable and accessible across confessional parties. In doing so it seeks to highlight the importance of confessional silence in the Republic of Letters as a strategy to confront the pressures of confessionalisation.
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Drawing on a variety of printed and manuscript sources, Arnoud Visser breaks new ground in three ways. He systematically grounds Augustine's theological reception in the history of reading and the material culture of books and manuscripts. He does not confine his examination to particular confessional parties or specific geographic boundaries, but offers a cross-confessional account of Augustine's appropriation in early modern Europe. Finally, he provides crucial insight into the nature of intellectual authority in the early modern period.
Central in this study are the production, circulation and consumption of Augustine's works. Visser examines the impact of the new art of print, the rise of humanist scholarship, and the emerging confessional divisions on Augustine's reception. He shows how editors navigated a wealth of patristic information by using search tools and anthologies, and explains how individual readers used their copies and how they applied their knowledge in public debates. Reading Augustine in the Reformation argues that emerging confessional pressures did not restrict intellectual life, as has often been claimed, but promoted exciting new areas and modes of scholarship.
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philological perspective and his malicious use of humor. Luther’s perception of Erasmian humor in fact operated as an interpretative tool that enabled him to project his suspicions about Erasmus’s skepticism and unbelief into the text. Documenting Luther’s continued preoccupation with Erasmus, this article offers a reevaluation of Erasmus’s intellectual significance for Luther’s theological development.
the challenges ahead, the second part of this article offers a case study of three intriguing annotated copies of Homer, once owned by the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (Columbia University Library, Plimpton 880 1517 H37).
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OGHRA maps this influence not just in theology, his traditional area of prominence, but far beyond, taking into account fields such as political theory, ethics, music, education, semiotics, literature, philosophy, psychotherapy, religion, and popular culture. Beginning with a detailed introduction, it offers chapter-length discussions and contextualization on the general characteristics of Augustine's reception in various periods, as well as on specific themes as wide-ranging as Islam and gender. OGHRA also surveys the material transmission and intellectual reception of almost all of Augustine's extant works, documented in the light of recent research. The largest part of the volumes comprises around 600 entries which describe, analyse, and evaluate Augustine's influence on a broad variety of key figures and themes through the ages.
Edited by Karla Pollmann (Editor-in-Chief), in collaboration with Willemien Otten (Editor) and twenty co-editors, it contains high quality scholarship from over 400 international experts. Offering precise information, with references to both primary and secondary sources, this reference work is unique in the breadth of material covered. It aims to survey the legacy of Augustine and make it available both to specialists and readers from other fields who may be unfamiliar with the scope of his impact.
1: Karla Pollmann: The Proteanism of Authority
2: The Making of Authority
David Lambert: Patterns of Augustine's Reception, 430-700: a Synthesis
Willemien Otten: The Reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages (700-1200): Presence, Absence, Reverence, and Other Modes of Appropriation
Eric Saak: Augustine and his Late Medieval Appropriations (1200-1500)
3: Philology and Doctrinal Debate
Jeremy Thompson: The Medieval Manuscript Tradition of Augustine's works: An Overview from 400-1200
Eric Saak: The Augustinian Renaissance: Textual Scholarship and Religious Identity in the Later Middle Ages (1200-1500)
Arnoud Visser: Augustine in Renaissance Humanism
Irena Backus: The 'Confessionalization' of Augustine in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
4: Augustine Beyond Theology and Back
Jean-Louis Quantin & Scott Mandelbrote: Augustine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Mark Elliott: Augustines in the Long Nineteenth Century's Theology
Maarten Wisse: The First Modern Person? Twentieth-Century Theological Reception of Augustine
5: Other Augustine
Peter Liebregts: 'Late have I loved you': Augustine and Modern Literature
David Wilhite: Augustine in Black and African Theology
Kari Børresen: Challenging Augustine in Feminist Theology and Gender Studies
Daniel König: Augustine and Islam
The Works of Augustine
Individuals and Themes
List of Contributors
Together, these articles show the variety within the Neo-Latin emblem production, thus challenging traditional approaches of the emblem. As such Mundus Emblematicus contributes towards a more comprehensive view of the forms and functions of the genre as a whole.
Contents:
Karl Enenkel and Arnoud Visser, Introduction
A. Moss, Emblems into Commonplaces: The Anthologies of Josephus Langius
D. S. Russell, Claude Mignault, Erasmus and Simon Bouquet: The Function of the Commentaries on Alciato’s Emblems
C. L. Heesakkers, Hadriani Iunii Medici Emblemata (1565)
A. Adams, The Emblemata of Théodore de Bèze (1580)
A. Rolet, Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones
E. Klecker and S. Schreiner, How to Gild Emblems. From Mathias Holtzwart’s Emblematum Tyrocinia to Nicolaus Reusner’s Aureola Emblemata
P. J. Smith, Arnold Freitag’s Mythologia Ethica (1579) and the Tradition of the Emblematic Fable
J. Papy, Joachim Camerarius’s Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Quatuor: From Natural Sciences to Moral Contemplation
L. Konečný and J. Olšovský, The Seven Liberal Arts into Emblems, in Olomouc, 1597
I. Veldman and C. Klein, The Painter and the Poet: The Nucleus Emblematum by De Passe and Rollenhagen
G. E. Szőnyi, Occult Semiotics and Iconology: Michael Maier’s Alchemical Emblems
T. Van Houdt, Hieremias Drexel’s Emblem Book Orbis Phaëthon (1629): Moral Message and Strategies of Persuasion
G. R. Dimler, Herman Hugo’s Pia Desideria.
Drawing on a variety of printed and manuscript sources, Arnoud Visser breaks new ground in three ways. He systematically grounds Augustine's theological reception in the history of reading and the material culture of books and manuscripts. He does not confine his examination to particular confessional parties or specific geographic boundaries, but offers a cross-confessional account of Augustine's appropriation in early modern Europe. Finally, he provides crucial insight into the nature of intellectual authority in the early modern period.
Central in this study are the production, circulation and consumption of Augustine's works. Visser examines the impact of the new art of print, the rise of humanist scholarship, and the emerging confessional divisions on Augustine's reception. He shows how editors navigated a wealth of patristic information by using search tools and anthologies, and explains how individual readers used their copies and how they applied their knowledge in public debates. Reading Augustine in the Reformation argues that emerging confessional pressures did not restrict intellectual life, as has often been claimed, but promoted exciting new areas and modes of scholarship.
philological perspective and his malicious use of humor. Luther’s perception of Erasmian humor in fact operated as an interpretative tool that enabled him to project his suspicions about Erasmus’s skepticism and unbelief into the text. Documenting Luther’s continued preoccupation with Erasmus, this article offers a reevaluation of Erasmus’s intellectual significance for Luther’s theological development.
the challenges ahead, the second part of this article offers a case study of three intriguing annotated copies of Homer, once owned by the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (Columbia University Library, Plimpton 880 1517 H37).
OGHRA maps this influence not just in theology, his traditional area of prominence, but far beyond, taking into account fields such as political theory, ethics, music, education, semiotics, literature, philosophy, psychotherapy, religion, and popular culture. Beginning with a detailed introduction, it offers chapter-length discussions and contextualization on the general characteristics of Augustine's reception in various periods, as well as on specific themes as wide-ranging as Islam and gender. OGHRA also surveys the material transmission and intellectual reception of almost all of Augustine's extant works, documented in the light of recent research. The largest part of the volumes comprises around 600 entries which describe, analyse, and evaluate Augustine's influence on a broad variety of key figures and themes through the ages.
Edited by Karla Pollmann (Editor-in-Chief), in collaboration with Willemien Otten (Editor) and twenty co-editors, it contains high quality scholarship from over 400 international experts. Offering precise information, with references to both primary and secondary sources, this reference work is unique in the breadth of material covered. It aims to survey the legacy of Augustine and make it available both to specialists and readers from other fields who may be unfamiliar with the scope of his impact.
1: Karla Pollmann: The Proteanism of Authority
2: The Making of Authority
David Lambert: Patterns of Augustine's Reception, 430-700: a Synthesis
Willemien Otten: The Reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages (700-1200): Presence, Absence, Reverence, and Other Modes of Appropriation
Eric Saak: Augustine and his Late Medieval Appropriations (1200-1500)
3: Philology and Doctrinal Debate
Jeremy Thompson: The Medieval Manuscript Tradition of Augustine's works: An Overview from 400-1200
Eric Saak: The Augustinian Renaissance: Textual Scholarship and Religious Identity in the Later Middle Ages (1200-1500)
Arnoud Visser: Augustine in Renaissance Humanism
Irena Backus: The 'Confessionalization' of Augustine in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
4: Augustine Beyond Theology and Back
Jean-Louis Quantin & Scott Mandelbrote: Augustine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Mark Elliott: Augustines in the Long Nineteenth Century's Theology
Maarten Wisse: The First Modern Person? Twentieth-Century Theological Reception of Augustine
5: Other Augustine
Peter Liebregts: 'Late have I loved you': Augustine and Modern Literature
David Wilhite: Augustine in Black and African Theology
Kari Børresen: Challenging Augustine in Feminist Theology and Gender Studies
Daniel König: Augustine and Islam
The Works of Augustine
Individuals and Themes
List of Contributors
Together, these articles show the variety within the Neo-Latin emblem production, thus challenging traditional approaches of the emblem. As such Mundus Emblematicus contributes towards a more comprehensive view of the forms and functions of the genre as a whole.
Contents:
Karl Enenkel and Arnoud Visser, Introduction
A. Moss, Emblems into Commonplaces: The Anthologies of Josephus Langius
D. S. Russell, Claude Mignault, Erasmus and Simon Bouquet: The Function of the Commentaries on Alciato’s Emblems
C. L. Heesakkers, Hadriani Iunii Medici Emblemata (1565)
A. Adams, The Emblemata of Théodore de Bèze (1580)
A. Rolet, Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones
E. Klecker and S. Schreiner, How to Gild Emblems. From Mathias Holtzwart’s Emblematum Tyrocinia to Nicolaus Reusner’s Aureola Emblemata
P. J. Smith, Arnold Freitag’s Mythologia Ethica (1579) and the Tradition of the Emblematic Fable
J. Papy, Joachim Camerarius’s Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Quatuor: From Natural Sciences to Moral Contemplation
L. Konečný and J. Olšovský, The Seven Liberal Arts into Emblems, in Olomouc, 1597
I. Veldman and C. Klein, The Painter and the Poet: The Nucleus Emblematum by De Passe and Rollenhagen
G. E. Szőnyi, Occult Semiotics and Iconology: Michael Maier’s Alchemical Emblems
T. Van Houdt, Hieremias Drexel’s Emblem Book Orbis Phaëthon (1629): Moral Message and Strategies of Persuasion
G. R. Dimler, Herman Hugo’s Pia Desideria.