Critical Monks
The German Benedictines, 1680-1740
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Word Count
91,000 words, Guess
Page Count
364 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004355460
- ISBN-109004355464
- Library of Congress Control Number2018053273
- OCLC Control Number1066189363
- Better World Books9789004355460
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- Open LibraryOL38038953M
Classifications
- LCCBX3034.W35 2019
- LCCBX3034 .W35 2019
Description
Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment: first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe.0Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this narrative in its highly complex pre-modern setting, and thus at some distance from modernist ascriptions ex posteriori. Challenged by Protestant and Catholic anti-monasticism, Benedictine scholars strove to maintain control of their intellectual tradition. They failed thoroughly, however: in the Holy Roman Empire, their success depended on an anti-Roman and nationalized reading of their research. For them, becoming part of an Enlightenment narrative meant becoming part of a cultural project of "Germany".
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