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Zusatztext "This is an erudite, complicated and ultimately rewarding book." ---Michael Hunter, European History Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Anthony Ossa-Richardson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Klappentext The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced! and was influenced by! some of the most significant developments in early modernity! such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion! confessional polemics! Deist and libertine challenges to religion! antiquarianism and early archaeology! Romantic historiography! and spiritualism. Ossa-Richardson examines the different views of the oracles since the Renaissance--that they were the work of the devil! or natural causes! or the fraud of priests! or finally an organic element of ancient Greek society. The range of discussion on the subject! as he demonstrates! is considerably more complex than has been realized before: hundreds of scholars! theologians! and critics commented on the oracles! drawing on a huge variety of intellectual contexts to frame their beliefs. Zusammenfassung Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Warburg Institute, 2011. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates ix Acknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE 11 CHAPTER ONE Authorities 13 CHAPTER TWO Demons 46 PART TWO 83 CHAPTER THREE Nature 87 CHAPTER FOUR Imposture 136 PART THREE 203 CHAPTER FIVE Enlightenment? 205 CHAPTER SIX Solutions 247 CONCLUSION Les lauriers sont coupes 285 Bibliography 291 Index 327
