| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 544 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Vita Brevis; 2. Scaliger's Significance; 3. Premature Universal History: The French Origins of Scaliger's Method; 4. Everything a Target: History as Master Discipline; 5. Scaligerian History as Master Discipline: Consequences for the Leiden Circle; 1. Vita Brevis; 2Virtuous Poverty of Reason: The Bucolic Heinsius (1603-4); 3. Dwelling on the Pagan-Christian Borders: Heinsius and Cunaeus on Nonnus (1610); 4. Enter Secularisation: On The Constitution of Tragedy (1611); 5. On the Superiority and Dignity of History (1613). |
| Summary |
The Leiden Circle pioneered the systematic exclusion of theologically grounded argument in areas of thought from the natural sciences to international relations. Somos uses richly contextualised portraits of Scaliger, Heinsius, Cunaeus and Grotius to develop a new model of secularisation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden -- History -- 16th century.
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Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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1500-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Somos, Mark. Secularisation and the Leiden Circle. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004209558 (DLC) 2011028620 (OCoLC)738347775 |
| ISBN |
9789004209572 (electronic book) |
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9004209573 (electronic book) |
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9789004209558 |
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9004209557 |
| Standard No. |
9786613270597 |
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