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Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity
Melanchthonian Scholarship between Universal History and Pedagogy
Inbunden, 2009
2593 kr
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The textual monuments of Greco-Roman antiquity, as is well known, were a staple of Europe’s educated classes since the Renaissance. That the Reformation ushered in a new understanding of human fate and history is equally a commonplace of modern scholarship. The present study probes attitudes …
Knowledge and Profanation
Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship
Av Martin Mulsow, Asaph Ben-Tov
Inbunden, 2019
2205 kr
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Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with …
Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668)
The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist
Inbunden, 2021
2083 kr
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In this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of …
Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben
Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700
Inbunden, 2023
2136 kr
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Hiob Ludolf (1624-1704) and Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-1679), the master and his erstwhile student could not be more different. Ludolf was a celebrated member of the Republic of Letters and the towering authority on Ethiopian studies. Wansleben, himself a brilliant scholar and, unlike Ludolf, a …
