The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to "History of Scholarship" surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion. The authors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religious history. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism and philology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy; and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This challenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right.

Edited by Christopher Ligota, Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Jean-Louis Quantin, Professor of the History of Scholarship, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris

Contributors:

Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin (Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study/Professor of the History of Early Modern Scholarship, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Paris)

Godefroid de Callataÿ (Professor of Islamic Studies, Institut Orientaliste, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)

Luigi Battezzato (Professor of Greek Literature, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)

Paul Nelles (Associate Professor of History, Carleton University, Ottawa)

Benedetto Bravo (Professor Emeritus, Institute of History, University of Warsaw)

Irena Backus (Titular Professor of the History of the Reformation, Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation, Université

de Genève)

Joanna Weinberg (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)

Piet van Boxel (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)

Fausto Parente (Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Christianity, Seconda Università di Roma (Tor Vergata)

Jean-Louis Quantin (Professor of the History of Early Modern Scholarship, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Paris)

Martin Mulsow (Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey)

Scott Mandelbrote (Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford)

Alain Schnapp (Professor of Classical Archaeology, Université de Paris I - Sorbonne

Denis Thouard (Chercheur at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Lille)/Sonderforschungsbereich 'Frühe Neuzeit' (Munich)

Alexandre Escudier (docteur ès letters, is chargé de recherche at the Centre de Recherches Politiques (CEVIPOF) of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris)