The International Reputation and Self-Representation of Hungarian Noblemen in the Seventeenth Century

The English Cassinese (1611-50)

Recusant History ◽

10.1017/s0034193200032374 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 62-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David Lunn

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

The Other ◽

International Reputation ◽

History Of

The Englishmen who were members of the Italian or Cassinese Benedictine Congregation in the seventeenth century have been neglected, mainly because, unlike the Englishmen who joined Spanish monasteries, the Cassinese did not perpetuate themselves and thus did not produce historians who would keeptheir memory alive. This is a pity, since several of them are important figures: Robert Gregory Sayer (1560-1602), who gained an international reputation as a moral theologian, which, it has been claimed, remains unrivalled among Englishmen; Roland Thomas Preston (1567-1647), whose prolific literaryoutput against the papal deposing power at least assures him of a place in the history of Anglo-Gallicanism; and Robert Anselm Beech (1568-1634), who was the agent in Rome who negotiated the setting up of the Benedictine mission to England and defended it against attack.The Anglo-Italians failed to perpetuate themselves because in 1616 they refused to unite with the other English monks, mainly in order to remain loyal to Preston, whom the others condemned for his writings. This article deals, first, with their attempt to found a community of their own at Paris, and, then, with their final years as a group. These two episodes have not been noticed before, and they have to be reconstructed entirely from manuscripts in the archives of the Archbishop of Westminster, the Abbey of S. Pietro at Perugia, the Congregation ‘de Propaganda Fide’ and the Vatican Library.

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Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van (1614–98)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-da039-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Stuart Brown

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Intellectual Culture ◽

International Reputation ◽

Late Renaissance ◽

Henry More

Although he lived in the seventeenth century, van Helmont belongs more to late Renaissance than to modern intellectual culture. He was a larger-than-life figure who, in his prime, had an international reputation as an alchemist and a physician. His metaphysical interests came increasingly to the fore, however, and he became particularly associated with Kabbalistic doctrines. A friend of Locke and Henry More, he was also closely connected with Anne Conway and Leibniz, with whom he shared many intellectual affinities. It is these connections that make his philosophy – in particular, his theodicy and his monadology – of enduring interest.

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L'Université de Leyde et la République des Lettres au 17e siècle

Quaerendo ◽

10.1163/157006975x00028 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 5-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul Dibon

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

University Of Leiden ◽

International Reputation ◽

The University

AbstractAlthough the University of Leiden was founded in 1575 under the most difficult circumstances, it managed to build up an international reputation, and was frequented by scholars from home and abroad before a quarter of a century had elapsed. In the early seventeenth century already the Academia Lugduno-Batava enjoyed considerable advantages, often the result of a concurrence of extraordinary circumstances and the careful policy of its Curators, so that all through the

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Salomon van Til (1643–1713)

Church History and Religious Culture ◽

10.1163/18712428-09403003 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 94 (3) ◽

pp. 337-357

Author(s):

Matthias Mangold

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Natural Theology ◽

Close Attention ◽

International Reputation ◽

Central Elements ◽

Intellectual Context ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

Intellectual Climate ◽

Van Til

In recent decades theologians and intellectual historians have given considerable attention to the dissemination of Cartesianism in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic. Scholars have focused primarily on the initial reception of Descartes’s ideas, the early reactions from his major critics and the more radical expressions of Cartesianism later on. Only in recent years have scholars begun to realize the considerable impact that moderate second-generation Cartesian theologians exerted on the intellectual climate in the Netherlands of the eighteenth century. Salomon van Til (1643–1713) ranks high among these thinkers. Yet despite his international reputation at that time, Van Til has been almost completely neglected in current research. This article analyzes Van Til’s appropriation of Cartesian tenets within his Compendium of Natural Theology (1704). Paying close attention to his intellectual context, it argues that the substantial usage of central elements of the Cartesian outlook, clearly manifested both in the method and in the content of the Compendium, should be interpreted in light of Van Til’s apologetic goal: to defend the Christian faith against the perceived onslaught of unbelief.

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Hands across the Water: The Making and Breaking of Marriage between Dutch and Scots in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Law and History Review ◽

10.2307/827651 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 215-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rab Houston ◽

Manon van der Heijden

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Northern Europe ◽

Low Countries ◽

University Of Leiden ◽

Protestant Churches ◽

The North ◽

The Reformation ◽

International Reputation ◽

The North Sea

At the time of the Reformation in the 1560s Scotland and the Netherlands already had long-established commercial links. Scots soldiers fought in the wars that ravaged the Low Countries and much of northern Europe in the two centuries after Calvinism gained a foothold. Goods, people, and ideas were readily exchanged in the North Sea basin. With the foundation in 1575 of the avowedly Protestant University of Leiden, academic and intellectual intercourse were added to trading ties. By the mid-seventeenth century Leiden had an international reputation for legal and medical education. Expatriate Protestant churches were established in the early seventeenth century, notably the Scots kirk, Rotterdam. There were nineteen English and Scottish religious communities in the Dutch Republic by the end of the seventeenth century.

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