Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 12 : The Reception of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment
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Subject: Classical Studies
This volume explores engagement with Greco-Roman Antiquity across Europe and beyond in the 18th century. Approximately 100 experts, in some 140 articles from “Academy” to “Wallpaper”, show how Classical and rival antiquities were perceived and studied during the age of Enlightenment, revolution and scientific progress, and how they served the formulation and affirmation of new ideals. The survey covers the period between the outbreak of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes in France in 1687 and the reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
Cartography
(2,334 words)
A. IntroductionContributory factors driving the boom in cartography that coincided with the transition to the early modern period included a growing reception of Ptolemy stimulated by Latin translations and the advent of printing, the exponential growth in geographical knowledge arising from the voyages of discovery and European expansion (and the resultant enthusiasm for outdoing the ancient geographers), new and more precise survey methods, and the development of copperplate engraving. Maps increasingly came to be seen and created as mathematically exact depicti…
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2021-01-25
Celtic-Germanic Antiquity
(1,547 words)
A. IntroductionThe Celts and Germans were still in many respects considered as a single entity in the 18th century, either because they were often believed to be the same people or because the names were thought to be interchangeable. As in the 16th and 17th century, engagement with them was based mainly on Greek and Latin texts. The first archaeological finds and monuments were also coming into consideration (Archaeology) but it was often only in the 19th century that these began to be dated reliably. The view of the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the 18th ce…
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2021-01-25
Censorship
(2,057 words)
A. IntroductionThe early modern institution of the censor’s office (Latin
censura, ‘judgment’, ‘opinion’; Middle Latin ‘oversight’), as the instrument whereby the ecclesiastical and secular authorities controlled communications, scrutinized all printed matter (books, illustrations, music). It tested for adherence to mandatory religious, political and moral values and took action if these were violated. The office came into existence in reaction to confessional squabbles and Humanist criticisms of the church. The principles of censorship established in…
Date:
2021-01-25