Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index.
Contents:
Ancient knowledge and modern mediations -- Logic and criticism across borders -- Conversing with the ancients : arts and practices -- The persistence of the Quarrel. Ancients, Moderns and the future: the Querelle in Germany from Winckelmann to Schiller / Ritchie Robertson. Ancients, Moderns and the language of criticism / Alexis Tadié -- Digging authority: archaeological controversies and the recognition of the metropolitan past in early eighteenth-century Paris / Stéphane van Damme -- From Lockean logic to Cartesian(ised) logic: the case of Locke's Essay and its contemporary controversial reception / Martine Pécharman -- Scholarly documentation in the Enlightenment: validation and interpretation / Marcus Walsh -- Reading the Ancients at the turn of the century: the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) / Karen Collis -- Ancients and Moderns, Italians and French: the seventeenth-century quarrel over music, its status and transformations / Théodora Psychoyou -- Painting and the tripartite model in Charles Perrault's Paralléls des Anciens et des Modernes / Elisabeth Lavezzi -- John Evelyn as modern architect and ancient gardener: 'Lessons of perpetual practice' / Paddy Bullard -- Ancient medicine, modern quackery: Bernard Mandeville and the rhetoric of healing / Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon -- Petrarch and the invention of synchrony / Amedeo Quondam -- Samuel Richardson among the Ancients and Moderns / Karin Kukkonen -- Finding ancient men in modern times: anachronism and the critique of modernity in Rousseau / Ourida Mostefai -- Ancients, Moderns and the future: the Querelle in Germany from Winckelmann to Schiller / Ritchie Robertson.
Summary:
"The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, or Battle of the Books as it was known in England, famously pitted the Ancients on the one side and the Moderns on the other. This book presents a new intellectual history of the dispute, in which authors explore its manifestations in the arts and sciences across Europe, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries." --back cover.
Series:
Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2016:06
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