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Title The making of the humanities. Volume 1, Early modern Europe / edited by Rens Bod ; Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn.

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
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Note Contains papers presented at a conference held Oct. 23-25, 2008, Amsterdam.
Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Table of Contents; Introduction: Historiography of the Humanities; I. The Humanities versus the Sciences; How Comparative Should a Comparative History of the Humanities Be?; Bridging the Gap; Music as Science and as Art; II. The Visual Arts as Liberal Arts; Representing the World; Ficino, Diacceto and Michelangelo's; 'Signs that Signify by Themselves'; III. Humanism and Heresy; Giordano Bruno and Metaphor; 'In Erudition There Is No Heresy'; IV. Language and Poetics; Humanism in the Classroom, a Reassessment; Origins and Principles; Transitional Texts and Emerging Linguistic Self-Awareness.
V. Linguists and LogiciansThe Changing Relations between Grammar, Rhetoric and Music in the Early Modern Period; The Artes Sermocinales in Times of Adversity; VI. Philology and Philosophy; Manuscript Hunting and the Challenge of Textual Variance in Late Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Studies; Spinoza in the History of Biblical Scholarship; The 'Rules of Critique'; VII. The History of History; Framing a New Mode of Historical Experience; Philosophy's Shadow; Contributors; List of Figures; Index.
Summary The first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities.
Language English.
Subject Humanities -- Congresses.
Humanities -- Comparative method -- Congresses.
Humanities -- Research -- Congresses.
Humanities.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- General.
Humanities
Humanities -- Research
Indexed Term History
Genre/Form Electronic books.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Added Author Bod, Rens, 1965-
Maat, Jaap.
Weststeijn, Thijs.
Added Title Early modern Europe
Other Form: Print version: Making of the humanities. Volume 1, Early modern Europe. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010 9789089642691 (OCoLC)669124832
ISBN 9789048513338 (electronic bk.)
9048513332 (electronic bk.)
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9781282985384
9789089642691
9089642692
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DEBSZ 421633670
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GBVCP 803554923

 
    
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