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Critical Monks - The German Benedictines, 1680-1740 (Hardcover)
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Critical Monks - The German Benedictines, 1680-1740 (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 25
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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. Based 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unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this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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