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Critical Monks on Hardback by Thomas Wallnig
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The German Benedictines, 1680–1740
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Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe. Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this narrative in its highly complex pre-modern setting, and thus at some distance from modernist ascriptions ex posteriori. Challenged by Protestant and Catholic anti-monasticism, Benedictine scholars strove to maintain control of their intellectual tradition. They failed thoroughly, however: in the Holy Roman Empire, their success depended on an anti-Roman and nationalized reading of their research. For them, becoming part of an Enlightenment narrative meant becoming part of a cultural project of “Germany”.

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Dr. Thomas Wallnig (1975) is Privatdozent for Modern History, teaching and conducting research projects at the University of Vienna. He has worked on the Republic of Letters, Catholic Scholarship, the Habsburg Monarchy and Digital Humanities.
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January 17th, 2019
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
364
ISBN-13
9789004355460
Product ID
28775148

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