Secularisation and the Leiden Circle:
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Main Author: Somos, Mark 1975- (Author)
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2011
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Item Description:List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Vita Brevis; 2. Scaliger's Significance; 3. Premature Universal History: The French Origins of Scaliger's Method; 4. Everything a Target: History as Master Discipline; 5. Scaligerian History as Master Discipline: Consequences for the Leiden Circle; 1. Vita Brevis; 2Virtuous Poverty of Reason: The Bucolic Heinsius (1603-4); 3. Dwelling on the Pagan-Christian Borders: Heinsius and Cunaeus on Nonnus (1610); 4. Enter Secularisation: On The Constitution of Tragedy (1611); 5. On the Superiority and Dignity of History (1613)
The Leiden Circle pioneered the systematic exclusion of theologically grounded argument in areas of thought from the natural sciences to international relations. Somos uses richly contextualised portraits of Scaliger, Heinsius, Cunaeus and Grotius to develop a new model of secularisation
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 544 S.)
ISBN:9789004209572
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004209558.i-544

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