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1988 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
World History ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Modern Europe

Sex and Scholarship

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-119
Author(s):  
Floris Verhaart
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Classical Philology ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
Moral Perspective ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Modern Europe

This chapter looks at examples of scholars who, in the early eighteenth century, worked on texts that were highly controversial from a moral perspective. The focus is on Pieter Burman’s edition of Petronius (1709) and Bentley’s work on Horace. Looking at this material from a perspective of textual criticism allowed Burman and Bentley to avoid delving too deeply into passages of a sexually loaded nature. Nevertheless, political and scholarly opponents of both men tried to blacken their reputation by connecting their research interests with their private lives. It is demonstrated that the association of textual critics with immorality was a commonplace in early modern Europe and that the tensions between in particular Burman and his opponents reveals a struggle to make classical philology a more independent field of enquiry versus other disciplines, such as theology.

Giving in early modern history: philanthropy in Amsterdam in the Golden Age

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO H. D. VAN LEEUWEN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Modern Europe

ABSTRACTPhilanthropy was enduring in early modern Europe. For centuries local charities gave small sums that helped many people to survive. Such charity can be studied from below, from the persepective of survival strategies, and from above, from the perspective of social control, but it can also be studied as scholars of philanthropic studies do for contemporary societies. This article does the latter. It pays attention to benefactors and benefactions; how many people gave and who were they?; when, where and what did benefactors give, and what were their motives? The article places an in-depth study of Amsterdam from the late sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century in the context of the literature on early modern European philanthropy.

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