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Ossa-Richardson, Anthony

 
9780691157115: The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought
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ISBN 10 : 0691157111 ISBN 13 : 9780691157115
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, Romantic historiography, and spiritualism. Ossa-Richardson examines the different views of the oracles since the Renaissance--that they were the work of the devil, or natural causes, or the fraud of priests, or finally an organic element of ancient Greek society. The range of discussion on the subject, as he demonstrates, is considerably more complex than has been realized before: hundreds of scholars, theologians, and critics commented on the oracles, drawing on a huge variety of intellectual contexts to frame their beliefs.

In a central chapter, Ossa-Richardson interrogates the landmark dispute on the oracles between Bernard de Fontenelle and Jean-François Baltus, challenging Whiggish assumptions about the mechanics of debate on the cusp of the Enlightenment. With erudition and an eye for detail, he argues that, on both sides of the controversy, to speak of the ancient oracles in early modernity was to speak of one's own historical identity as a Christian.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anthony Ossa-Richardson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691157111
ISBN 13 
9780691157115
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
360
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