Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004268234)

Vendor: Karl A. E. Enenkel
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Format: Hardcover
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Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education

$232.00

Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education

$232.00
Format: Hardcover
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This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of the "Book of Nature" comprised, among others, the description of species in the literary tradition of antiquity, as well as empirical observations, vivisection, and modern eyewitness accounts; the "translation" of zoological species into visual art for devotion, prayer, and religious education, but also scientific and scholarly curiosity; theoretical, philosophical, and theological thinking regarding God's creation, the Flood, and the generation of animals; new attempts with respect to nomenclature and taxonomy; the discovery of unknown species in the New World; impressive Wunderkammer collections, and the keeping of exotic animals in princely menageries. The volume demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science.

Contributors include: Brian Ogilvie, Bernd Roling, Erik Jorink, Paul Smith, Sabine Kalff, Tamás Demeter, Amanda Herrin, Marrigje Rikken, Alexander Loose, Sophia Hendrikx, and Karl Enenkel.

Author: Karl A. E. Enenkel
ISBN-10: 9004268235
ISBN-13: 9789004268234
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2014
Pages: 522
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.11lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.30d
By Karl A. E. Enenkel
By Karl A. E. Enenkel
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KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

PAUL J. SMITH is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.

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