The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism
Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought
9781908590565
Distributed for University of London Press
The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism
Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought
271 pages | 6 3/4 x 9 1/2
Literature and Literary Criticism: Classical Languages
Philosophy: History and Classic Works
Table of Contents
Foreword Sextus Empiricus, Child of the Marriage of Philology and Scepticisms by Glen Most Medieval Precedents for Sceptical Philology by Jan M. Ziolkowski The Other Philology: Resolving Doubts about Textual Meaning in Early Modern Law and Theology by Ian Maclean Divination: Towards the History of a Philological Term by Anthony Grafton Coping with Philological Doubt: Sixteenth-Century Approaches to the Text of Seneca by Jill Kraye Critical Method in Lambinus’s Lucretius: Collation and Interpolation by David Butterfield Philology and Scepticism: Early Modern Scholars at Work on the Text of the Bible by Scott Mandelbrote Freethinking, New Testament Textual Criticism and Censorship: Anthony Collins, Richard Bentley and the Index librorum prohibitorum by Gian Mario Cao Index