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Joseph Scaliger: II: Historical Chronology (Hardcover)
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Joseph Scaliger: II: Historical Chronology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
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During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries technical chronology,
the study of calendars and of dates in ancient and medieval
history, was both a fashionable and a controversial discipline.
Theologians debated the dates of the Creation, the Flood, and the
Crucifixion. Astronomers and historians argued about the identity
of the eclipses that could supply absolute dates for events long
past. Classical scholars reconstructed the religious beliefs and
political practices that had governed the Greek and Roman
calendars. Clerics and consultant experts, finally, debated what
was to be done to mend the obviously faulty calendar of the western
Church. Poliziano and Pico, Luther and Melanchthon, Copernicus and
Kepler all studied and wrote about chronology. Late in the 1570s
Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) turned his attention to this field. He
had already established himself as an innovative and ingenious
editor of Latin texts, as the first volume of this study showed.
But he now became one of the most celebrated scholars in Europe. He
synthesized the work of dozens of other scholars, many of them now
forgotten. He started or took part in many technical debates. And
on such central problems as the date and nature of the Last Supper,
the reliability of the various Old Testament texts, and the worth
of the fragmentary historians of the ancient Near East, he showed
remarkable erudition and insight. This book tells the stories of
chronology and of Scaliger himself. It describes the scholarly
circles in which he moved - above all the University of Leiden, the
most innovative in Europe, where he spent the last decade and a
half of his life. And it reconstructs his relations with
contemporary scholars and scientists - notably Tycho Brahe and
Johannes Kepler - and his remarkable, if wholly unofficial, career
as a teacher. It is a sequel to volume I: Textual Criticism and
Exegesis, published in 1983.
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