Central European Pasts

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Central European Pasts

Old and New in the Intellectual Culture of Habsburg Europe, 1700–1750

Edited by: Ines Peper and Thomas Wallnig

Volume 6 in the series Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110653052

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Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17^th and 18^th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time and historicity are encountered not only in cultural contexts outside of Europe but also in the largely forgotten professional knowledge of the Old World: Thomism, Peripatetism, moderate forms of criticism, political theory, and legal practice.

This book introduces a broad panorama of such intellectual cultures in Central Europe. It situates theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship in its institutional and epistemological environments: the Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy. In doing so, it identifies struggles over competing pasts – Christian, ethnic, legal – as the core of those domains' intellectual development.

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Ines Peper, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; Thomas Wallnig, University of Vienna.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introductions
Introduction: The querelle that wasn’t Ines Peper and Thomas Wallnig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Habsburg intellectual history in context. Two perspectives (roof intro) Thomas Wallnig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Habsburg intellectual history in its universal, imperial, and regional contexts: A Counter-Reformation account Thomas Wallnig and Ines Peper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Habsburg intellectual history in a global context: revolution, evolution, innovation William O’Reilly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The Church
Bernhard Pez challenges his abbot, as viewed from a curial perspective. New materials on a conflict situated between monastic discipline and theological antiquarianism Chiara Petrolini, Daniel Frey and Thomas Wallnig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Ignorant critics, learned colleagues, and evidence from the source: Bernhard Pez’s Apologia for the publication of The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin Amanda J. Langley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Die Rezeption der Constitutio Unigenitus (1713) im Alten Reich: eine unterschätzte Diskussion? Juliette Guilbaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The debate about the completion of the Cathedral of Milan during the eighteenth century. Innovation and continuity with regard to aesthetical, lexical, and theoretical issues Barbara Tetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Tradition and reform in the scholarship of Sebastiano Paoli OMD (1684–1751) between Vienna and Naples Nicholas Mithen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Empire
Verhandlungen über das Mittelalter zwischen Melk und Leipzig: Bernhard Pez’ Brief von einigen alten Poeten, welche in teutscher Sprache etwas geschrieben (1725) Ines Peper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Wenn „große Männer“ fehlen: Argumentationsstrategien im Ringen um eine Studienreform an der Universität Wien zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts Manuela Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
„Interdum optarem autoritatibus Tua magis muniri caeteroque philologico apparatu.“ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Kritik an Hermann von der Hardts rationalistischer Bibelauslegung Nora Gädeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Another querelle. The Usus Modernus Pandectarum and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire around 1700 Thomas Ahnert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
The Habsburg Monarchy
Gebrauchtbuchhandel als neue Geschäftspraxis: Der Wiener Buchhandel des Johann Adam Schmidt (Nürnberg) zwischen Novitäten und Antiquariat (1730–1751) Mona Garloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Der Streit um die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher. Gottfried Philipp von Spannagel (Wien) gegen Ignaz Franz Xaver von Wilhelm (München) Stefan Benz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Two visions of a sacred kingdom: Gabriel Hevenesi and Samuel Timon as expositors of Holy Hungary Paul Shore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Old and new iconographic forms on the eastern border of the Habsburg Monarchy. Social prestige and family alliances in eighteenth-century Oltenia Silvia Marin Barutcieff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
New uses of an old theme: The Roman origins of Romanians in the discourse of the Greek Catholic elite in eighteenth-century Transylvania Greta-Monica Miron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
The Istoria of Francesco Ottieri and the writing of modern history in early eighteenth-century Italy Guido G. Beduschi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Antiquos reverentia, novos aequitate: „Moderne“ Antikerezeption bei Carl Gustav Heraeus Elisabeth Klecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Habsburgs beste Quellen. Tradition und Innovation in der Balneologie des 18. Jahrhunderts Sonia Horn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Das Josephinische Eherecht. Eine Gemengelage aus Altem und Neuem im Dienste einer bürgerlich-patriarchalen Geschlechterordnung Andrea Griesebner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
Epilogues
Interactive antiquities: A Relational History Franz L. Fillafer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565
Querelle – Parallèle – Paradoxe – Guerre. Framing the dispute between Ancients and Moderns in the early modern periodical press (Nouvelles littéraires, Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen) Anita Traninger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	607
Index of People Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	639
Index of Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	655

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Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars from the field of Early Modern History, Austrian History, History of Knowledge
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 660
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 24
Keywords: Habsbourg monarchy; 18th century; culture of knowledge

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Published: July 18, 2022
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Central European Pasts

Old and New in the Intellectual Culture of Habsburg Europe, 1700–1750