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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions,
2352-1325 ;
volume 25
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions.
2352-1325 ; volume 25.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Layers of time -- between trent and the enlightenment -- Layers of space: "Benedictine Europe" -- Layers of knowledge: religious communities in early modern Central Europe -- Layers of demography: being a Benedictine monk -- On sources, bibliography, and terminology -- Multiple Perspectives -- On the Same Object? -- "Die forschungszentren der deutschen Benediktiner" and the "Katholische Fruhaufklarung" -- "Enlightened monks" -- and "monastic humanism" -- Making monks enlightened: the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- Benedictine tradition(s) -- Looking ahead from 1700: the making of "enlightened monasticism" in the 18th century -- Looking back from 1700: 1200 years of prehistories for Benedictine? -- Scholarly practice -- The inner circulation of knowledge: congregation, university, or academy? -- German and French Benedictines -- The protestants: res publica literaria and Germania -- Knowledge, required: the state, the church -- and the aristocracy -- Diverse publics, diverse censorships -- Conflict and dissent in the Benedictine context. |
| Summary |
Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe. Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this narrative in its highly complex pre-modern setting, and thus at some distance from modernist ascriptions ex posteriori. Challenged by Protestant and Catholic anti-monasticism, Benedictine scholars strove to maintain control of their intellectual tradition. They failed thoroughly, however: in the Holy Roman Empire, their success depended on an anti-Roman and nationalized reading of their research. For them, becoming part of an Enlightenment narrative meant becoming part of a cultural project of "Germany." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Benedictines -- Germany -- History.
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Benedictines. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wallnig, Thomas. Critical Monks. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004355460 (DLC) 2018053273 (OCoLC)1066189363 |
| ISBN |
9789004393134 (electronic book) |
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9004393137 (electronic book) |
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9789004355460 |
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9004355464 |
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