03624nam 2200625 a 450 991046331750332120211028013436.01-4008-4659-510.1515/9781400846597(CKB)2670000000352518(EBL)1131681(OCoLC)842265980(SSID)ssj0000871361(PQKBManifestationID)12374526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871361(PQKBWorkID)10823212(PQKB)11759922(MiAaPQ)EBC1131681(StDuBDS)EDZ0001752985(MdBmJHUP)muse43423(DE-B1597)453907(OCoLC)979629875(DE-B1597)9781400846597(Au-PeEL)EBL1131681(CaPaEBR)ebr10691847(CaONFJC)MIL484517(EXLCZ)99267000000035251820121002d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe Devil's tabernacle[electronic resource] the pagan oracles in early modern thought /Anthony Ossa-RichardsonCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20131 online resource (357 p.)Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Warburg Institute, 2011.0-691-15711-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Plates --Acknowledgements --Introduction --Part One --Chapter One. Authorities --Chapter Two. Demons --Part Two --Chapter Three. Nature --Chapter Four. Imposture --Part Three --Chapter Five. Enlightenment? --Chapter Six. Solutions --Conclusion --Bibliography --IndexThe Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, Romantic historiography, and spiritualism. Ossa-Richardson examines the different views of the oracles since the Renaissance--that they were the work of the devil, or natural causes, or the fraud of priests, or finally an organic element of ancient Greek society. The range of discussion on the subject, as he demonstrates, is considerably more complex than has been realized before: hundreds of scholars, theologians, and critics commented on the oracles, drawing on a huge variety of intellectual contexts to frame their beliefs. In a central chapter, Ossa-Richardson interrogates the landmark dispute on the oracles between Bernard de Fontenelle and Jean-François Baltus, challenging Whiggish assumptions about the mechanics of debate on the cusp of the Enlightenment. With erudition and an eye for detail, he argues that, on both sides of the controversy, to speak of the ancient oracles in early modernity was to speak of one's own historical identity as a Christian.OraclesEuropeReligionElectronic books.Oracles.203/.2Ossa-Richardson Anthony1981-480288MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463317503321The Devil's tabernacle2454135UNINA00885nam a2200229 i 4500991001814319707536060823s2006 de 00 0 ger d3826032284b13431250-39ule_instDip.to Filologia Class. e Scienze Filosoficheita193Wolf, Jean-Claude160784Eduard von Hartmann :zeitgenosse und gegenspieler Nietzsches /herausgegeben von Jean-Claude WolfWürzburg :Königshausen & Neumann,2006173 p. ;24 cmHartmann, Eduard :von.b1343125002-04-1423-08-06991001814319707536LE007 193 WOL 01.0112007000108529le007pE28.50-l- 02020.i1428084x23-08-06Eduard von Hartmann1097625UNISALENTOle00723-08-06ma -gerde 00