Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe - Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd

This collection of essays examines interplays of knowledge and religion in early modern thought. Spanning from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, it considers varied formations of knowledge and religion, knowledge about religion(s) and irreligious knowledge in early modern Europe.

About the author

Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Currently working on the role of Classics and Oriental Studies at German universities of the Early Enlightenment. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (Brill, 2009).

Yaacov Deutsch, Ph.D (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem is head of the History Department at David Yellin College and Executive Director of the World Union of Jewish Studies. He is the author of Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Tamar Herzig, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer in early modern history at Tel Aviv University and the author of Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (The University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Product details

• Assisted by: Asaph Ben-Tov (Editor), Yaacov Deutsch (Editor), Tamar Herzig (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9789004225640
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22564-0
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works