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Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry
The present work offers the first major study of the Augustinian historian and missionary Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714) and places Bonjour’s hitherto unstudied contributions to pagan mythography, biblical chronology, and ancient religion in their historical, intellectual context. It argues that Bonjour was part of a prominent scholarly tradition which advanced a new understanding of and approach to studying pagan antiquity, an approach which, if developed with the intention of elucidating and further confirming traditional assumptions about the authority of biblical history, nevertheless proved innovative for the way in which it postulated a new relationship between the “sacred” and the “profane” in ancient history.
Europe and China
Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia. They also brought to Europe a deeper knowledge of Asian countries. This volume brings together a series of essays analyzing important new data on this significant scientific and cultural exchange, including several in-depth discussions of new sources relevant to Jesuit scientific activities at the Chinese Emperor''s Court. It includes major contributions examining various case studies that range from the work of some individual missionaries (Karel Slav cek, Guillaume Bonjour) in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng to the cultural exchange between a Korean envoy and the Beijing Jesuits during the early 18th century. Focusing in particular on the relationship between science and the arts, this volume also features articles pertaining to the historical contributions made by Tomis Pereira and Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, to the exchange of musical knowledge between China and Europe.
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."
Commonweal
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Autour de Lactance
Autour de Lactance et de Pierre Monat, ce volume d'hommages réunit des articles qui s'intéressent à l'auteur des Institutions divines sous différents aspects (ainsi son rapport à l'épicurisme, à la justice, aux arts libéraux), jusqu'à la perception qu'ont pu avoir de Lactance les siècles qui l'ont suivi. L'horizon a été élargi à d'autres questions de patristique, domaine d'étude auquel Pierre Monat a consacré une longue activité. Enfin l'incessante curiosité de notre collègue a suscité l'hommage d'autres contributions plus variées, qui n'ont même pas oublié d'évoquer Félix Gaffiot, prédécesseur de Pierre Monat à la chaire de Latin de l'Université de Besançon.
Antiquarianismus, Hagiographie und Historie im 17. Jahrhundert
Antiquarianismus ist eine gleichermaßen aktuelle wie wissenschaftshistorisch belastete Kategorie. Nach Maßgabe des traditionellen ideengeschichtlichen Primats des Theoretischen und abgeschreckt von den sich damit assoziierenden monumentalen Formen galten die altertumskundlichen Bestrebungen des 17. Jahrhunderts lange Zeit als Ausdruck einer Krise der Historiographie, welche von den skeptizistischen Erwägungen René Descartes’ ihren Ausgang genommen habe. Die Studie hingegen beruht auf der Hypothese, dass die Lebendigkeit, die von den Antiquaren der Zeit in das Feld des Historiographischen hineingetragen wurde, die Fundamente historiographischen Tuns in materieller und intellektueller Hi...
