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Author: Mark Towsey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108483003 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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Presents a dramatic account of how readers across the English-speaking world used history to understand the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions.
Author: Mark Towsey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108483003 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
Presents a dramatic account of how readers across the English-speaking world used history to understand the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions.
Author: Mark G. Spencer Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271062452 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
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This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.
Author: Nicholas Keene Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351901540 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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The Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There have been many publications in the last quarter of a century on heterodoxy, particularly concentrating on the emergence of new sects in the mid-seventeenth century and the perceived onslaught on the clerical establishment by freethinkers and Deists in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century. However, the study of orthodoxy has languished far behind. This volume of complementary essays will be the first to embrace orthodox and heterodox treatments of scripture, and in the process question, challenge and redefine what historians mean when they use these terms. The collection will dispel the myth that a critical engagement with sacred texts was the preserve of radical figures: anti-scripturists, Quakers, Deists and freethinkers. For while the work of these people was significant, it formed only part of a far broader debate incorporating figures from across the theological spectrum engaging in a shared discourse. To explore this discourse, scholars have been drawn together from across the fields of history, theology and literary criticism. Areas of investigation include the inspiration, textual integrity and historicity of scriptural texts, the relative authority of canon and apocrypha, prophecy, the comparative merits of texts in different ancient languages, developing tools of critical scholarship, utopian and moral interpretations of scripture and how scholars read the Bible. Through a study of the interrelated themes of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, print culture and the public sphere, and the theory and practice of textual interpretation, our understanding of the histories of religion, theology, scholarship and reading in seventeenth-century England will be enhanced.
Author: Mark Towsey
Author: Mark Towsey
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Author: Mark G. Spencer
Author: Edinburgh University Library
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Author: Nicholas Keene
Author: Samuel Halkett
Author: Samuel Halkett
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Author: Samuel Halkett