CRITICAL HISTORY, SUBVERSION AND SELF-SUBVERSION: THE CURIOUS CASES OF JEAN MABILLON AND RICHARD SIMON (I/II) Cover Image

CRITICAL HISTORY, SUBVERSION AND SELF-SUBVERSION: THE CURIOUS CASES OF JEAN MABILLON AND RICHARD SIMON (I/II)
CRITICAL HISTORY, SUBVERSION AND SELF-SUBVERSION: THE CURIOUS CASES OF JEAN MABILLON AND RICHARD SIMON (I/II)

Author(s): Veronica Lazăr
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: historical criticism; Richard Simon; Jean Mabillon; Theological-Political Treatise;

Summary/Abstract: This paper compares two programmes of historical criticism at the end of the 16th Century – Jean Mabillon’s diplomatics and Richard Simon’s biblical criticism. Although they were both conceived as philological and contextual reconstruction of texts, their relation with the authority of the texts and their engagement with political and institutional stakes were strikingly different.

  • Issue Year: 65/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 173-185
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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