Knowledge and Profanation (Intersections: Interdiscipinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 63)

Martin Mulsow

ISBN 10: 9004398929 / ISBN 13: 9789004398924

Published by BRILL, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge and Profanation (Intersections: Interdiscipinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 63)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004398929
• ISBN 13: 9789004398924
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors.

About the Author

Martin Mulsow is professor of intellectual history at the University of Erfurt and director of the Gotha Research Center. He is the author of Prekäres Wissen: Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin: 2012) and Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720 (Charlottesville: 2015). Asaph Ben-Tov is acting professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. He authored Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship between Universal History and Pedagogy (Leiden: 2009) and is co-editor of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd (Leiden: 2013).