CLASSICAL LEARNING IN BRITAIN FRA - Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns

Floris Verhaart examines how scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defended the relevance of classical learning after the emergence of rationalism and empiricism called the authority of the ancients into question.

List of contents

• Table of contents


• Acknowledgements


• List of abbreviations


• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Construction of Humanism


• 3: Sex and Scholarship: Textual Criticism as an Instrument in the Struggle for


• 4: Scholarly Independence


• 5: The Quest for Civic Virtue


• 6: Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Floris Verhaart studied Classics and Slavic languages at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and finished his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include a broad range of aspects of the religious, cultural, and intellectual world of early modern Europe, including the history of religion, scholarship, and sex and sexuality.

Summary

Floris Verhaart examines how scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defended the relevance of classical learning after the emergence of rationalism and empiricism called the authority of the ancients into question.

Additional text

Verhaart should be commended for developing such a convincing argument and presenting it in such an enjoyable way. The book is well-produced, with a useful bibliography and index and no major typographical errors.

Product details

• Authors: Floris Verhaart, Floris (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Verhaart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198861690
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886169-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Netherlands, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, C 1700 To C 1800