LEADER 03563nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910815578503321 005 20230803025932.0 010 $a1-4008-4659-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846597 035 $a(CKB)2670000000352518 035 $a(EBL)1131681 035 $a(OCoLC)842265980 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12374526 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10823212 035 $a(PQKB)11759922 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1131681 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001752985 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43423 035 $a(DE-B1597)453907 035 $a(OCoLC)979629875 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1131681 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10691847 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL484517 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000352518 100 $a20121002d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Devil's tabernacle $ethe pagan oracles in early modern thought /$fAnthony Ossa-Richardson 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Warburg Institute, 2011. 311 0 $a0-691-15711-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPlates --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction --$tPart One --$tChapter One. Authorities --$tChapter Two. Demons --$tPart Two --$tChapter Three. Nature --$tChapter Four. Imposture --$tPart Three --$tChapter Five. Enlightenment? --$tChapter Six. Solutions --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aOracles 607 $aEurope$xReligion 615 0$aOracles. 676 $a203/.2 700 $aOssa-Richardson$b Anthony$f1981-$0480288 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815578503321 996 $aThe Devil's tabernacle$93975839 997 $aUNINA