Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe
An Episode in the History of the Humanities

9780197266601, OUP Oxford

Hardback, published 26 December 2019

426 pages
23.4 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.83 kg

Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers the most comprehensive account thus far of the relationship between religious identity-formation and the history of knowledge in early modern Europe.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]