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Critical Monks : the German Benedictines, 1680-1740 /

Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe. Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallnig, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Colección:Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, volume 25
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Layers of time
  • between trent and the enlightenment
  • Layers of space: "Benedictine Europe"
  • Layers of knowledge: religious communities in early modern Central Europe
  • Layers of demography: being a Benedictine monk
  • On sources, bibliography, and terminology
  • Multiple Perspectives
  • On the Same Object?
  • "Die forschungszentren der deutschen Benediktiner" and the "Katholische Fruhaufklarung"
  • "Enlightened monks"
  • and "monastic humanism"
  • Making monks enlightened: the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Benedictine tradition(s)
  • Looking ahead from 1700: the making of "enlightened monasticism" in the 18th century
  • Looking back from 1700: 1200 years of prehistories for Benedictine?
  • Scholarly practice
  • The inner circulation of knowledge: congregation, university, or academy?
  • German and French Benedictines
  • The protestants: res publica literaria and Germania
  • Knowledge, required: the state, the church
  • and the aristocracy
  • Diverse publics, diverse censorships
  • Conflict and dissent in the Benedictine context.