Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07030002
Toon van Hal
In an increasing number of general introductions to historical linguistics, Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn, a seventeenth-century Leiden scholar, is taking William Jones’ place as ‘founding father’ of comparative linguistics. This article focuses on Boxhorn’s investigations into and explanations for the similarities between several European languages and a number of Asian languages, currently known as the Scythian theory. After providing a chronological outline of Boxhorn’s Scythian research endeavours, the article examines what Boxhorn precisely understands by the ‘Scythian language’, which languages are part of the Scythian language family, and how Boxhorn methodologically undergirds his ideas. The article, questioning the urge to designate one specific founding father for the discipline, pays special attention to conceptual and methodological ‘weaknesses’ in Boxhorn’s framework, which tend to be glossed over in recent literature.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07030003
M. Portuondo
{"title":"Mercedes García-Arenal and Stefania Pastore, eds., From Doubt to Unbelief: Forms of Scepticism in the Iberian World Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal, eds, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700","authors":"M. Portuondo","doi":"10.1163/24055069-07030003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-07030003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37173,"journal":{"name":"Erudition and the Republic of Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48762536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07030001
Xander Feys
The present contribution focuses on three previously unedited letters from the Louvain professor of Latin, Petrus Nannius (Nanninck; 1496–1557), to his patron Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517–1586). The letters, now kept in Madrid at the Biblioteca Nacional de España and Real Biblioteca del Palacio Real, date from November 1545, April 1546, and January 1551. They reveal novel insights with regard to the professor’s biography, most notably that by 1551, through his patron’s mediation, he enjoyed a prebend from the Dendermonde Chapter and was most likely appointed canon there. By means of these new snippets of information, I reassess and further define the patronus-cliens relationship between Nannius and Granvelle, after which I edit the letters critically for the first time.
本论文的重点是卢旺拉丁语教授Petrus Nannius（Nanninck；1496-1557）给他的赞助人Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle（1517-1586）的三封未经编辑的信。这些信件现在保存在马德里的西班牙国家图书馆和皇家宫殿图书馆，日期分别为1545年11月、1546年4月和1551年1月。他们揭示了对这位教授传记的新颖见解，最值得注意的是，到1551年，在他的赞助人的调解下，他获得了登德蒙德分会的预授，很可能被任命为那里的正典。通过这些新的信息片段，我重新评估并进一步定义了Nannius和Granvelle之间的父子关系，之后我第一次批判性地编辑了这些信件。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07030005
Maria-Cristina Pitassi
{"title":"Silvia Castelli, Johann Jakob Wettstein’s Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism. A Fight for Scholarly Freedom","authors":"Maria-Cristina Pitassi","doi":"10.1163/24055069-07030005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-07030005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37173,"journal":{"name":"Erudition and the Republic of Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49017206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07030004
G. Toomer
{"title":"Simon Mills, A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion,and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760","authors":"G. Toomer","doi":"10.1163/24055069-07030004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-07030004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37173,"journal":{"name":"Erudition and the Republic of Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44467474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07030006
Anthony Ossa-Richardson
{"title":"Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta","authors":"Anthony Ossa-Richardson","doi":"10.1163/24055069-07030006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-07030006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37173,"journal":{"name":"Erudition and the Republic of Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45865541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07010002
Christopher D. Johnson
This article examines the methodological, epistemological, aesthetic, and affective tensions between the promise of diagrammatic representation and the practice of discursive expression in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621, first edition). It closely interprets the Anatomy’s tabular logic and analytic claims per se and in conjunction with Burton’s inductive, imaginative prose. While the discursive gathering of copious particulars aims to cure and to console, by ‘rectification’ and ‘recreation’ respectively, the synoptic tables introducing the book’s three partitions represent the ambiguous promise of human scientia, thus becoming yet another cause of melancholy. Compared with other early modern instances of tabular and encyclopedic reason, and interpreted in light of recent scholarship on the diagram, Burton’s tables play a critical, subtle role not only in the Anatomy’s invention and arrangement of topics, but also on the local level where the struggle for meaning and the experience of affect occurs.
{"title":"Diagram and Discourse in the Anatomy of Melancholy","authors":"Christopher D. Johnson","doi":"10.1163/24055069-07010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-07010002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the methodological, epistemological, aesthetic, and affective tensions between the promise of diagrammatic representation and the practice of discursive expression in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621, first edition). It closely interprets the Anatomy’s tabular logic and analytic claims per se and in conjunction with Burton’s inductive, imaginative prose. While the discursive gathering of copious particulars aims to cure and to console, by ‘rectification’ and ‘recreation’ respectively, the synoptic tables introducing the book’s three partitions represent the ambiguous promise of human scientia, thus becoming yet another cause of melancholy. Compared with other early modern instances of tabular and encyclopedic reason, and interpreted in light of recent scholarship on the diagram, Burton’s tables play a critical, subtle role not only in the Anatomy’s invention and arrangement of topics, but also on the local level where the struggle for meaning and the experience of affect occurs.","PeriodicalId":37173,"journal":{"name":"Erudition and the Republic of Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44538985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07010006
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07010005
A. Hamilton
{"title":"Detlef Haberland, ed., Der Orientreisende Ulrich Jaspar Seetzen und die Wissenschaften; Leonhard Burckhardt, Lucas Burkart, Jan Loop, Rolf Stucky, eds., Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Sheikh Ibrahim. Entdeckungen im Orient um 1800 / Discoveries in the Orient around 1800","authors":"A. Hamilton","doi":"10.1163/24055069-07010005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-07010005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37173,"journal":{"name":"Erudition and the Republic of Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44818353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1163/24055069-07010001
S. Kennerley
This article reconstructs the troubled history behind the editio princeps of Theodoret of Cyrus’s anti-heretical works, which was printed at Rome in 1547. It is split into three parts, each of which corresponds to a key word in its title. The first part of this article identifies the manuscript of Theodoret used for this edition, its scribe, exemplar, and the timeline, circumstances, and methods of its creation. It then explores the uproar that the initial printing of this edition created among the Greek community of Rome, using this incident to examine the prosecution of Greeks by the inquisitions in Italy. The final part of this article analyses how different members of the Catholic hierarchy sought either to save or to suppress the edition of Theodoret, uncovering the documents and assumptions that ultimately ensured its survival. A conclusion summarises the main findings of this article, while highlighting paths for future research.
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