Dirk van Miert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk van Miert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | van Miert |
| SIGNATURE | VAN MIERT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5460-4075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social Networking in the Republic of Knowledge
The ‘province’ of the Dutch Republic in the international Republic of Letters
One of the victims of nationalist historiography has been the intrinsically transnational culture of learning that was so vibrant in the United Provinces that this country was deemed a focal point of the international world of scholarship and science already in the early modern period. The history of the Republic of Letters promises to offer a fruitful alternative to nation-based history, precisely because of its apparent transnationalism, the mo…
Marc Fumaroli, The Republic of Letters
Marc Fumaroli's The Republic of Letters,1 which appeared in 2015 in French as La République des Lettres, and which has now been published in the aptly entitled series 'Margellos' World Republic of Letters' , testifies to a scholarly, or perhaps rather a literary, life dedicated to the largely forgotten tradition of a truly European scholarly social phenomenon: the 'Respublica litteraria' .This translation is to be welcomed; Fumaroli , as one of g…
The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670
This book argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible aimed to stabilize the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable. Spinoza capitalized on this tradition in his notorious Theological-Political Treatise , published in the Dutch Republic in 1670. But the foundations on which his radical biblical scholarship is built were laid by Refo…
Claude Saumaise and the ‘Hairy War’ (1640–1650)
Chapter 6 shows that Claude Saumaise, who as a teenager was also coached by Scaliger by means of letters and who had taken his chair two decades after Scaliger’s death, was also his successor in terms of biblical scholarship. Moreover, Saumaise advertised biblical philology in the context of a violent public debate over public conduct: the question whether the apostle Paul thought that men could not wear long hair. In this highly advertised contr…
Radical Philology
Chapter 7 shows that Claude Saumaise provided, willy-nilly, a prop for Isaac de La Peyrère to support his heretical theory of the Men before Adam. The chapter demonstrates the importance of the medium in which biblical philology was conducted: La Peyrère made creative use of the scholarship of Scaliger and Saumaise and was accepted as company by the likes of André Rivet, as long as he kept his theory within very limited circulation. As soon as he…
Joseph Scaliger
Chapter 1 shows that in Leiden around 1600 the type of philology that undermined the stability of the biblical text was kept indoors or was restricted to private correspondence. The independently minded Joseph Scaliger focused on chronology and history, and the history of the Bible was part of his studies, although it did not stand at the centre of his attention. Scaliger was reluctant to publish his philological annotations on the Bible. He adop…
The “Hairy War” (1640–50)
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age
Did innovative textual analysis reshape the relations between Christian believers and their churches in early modern confessional states? This volume explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion unde…
Making the States’ Translation (1637)
In the study of the history of biblical scholarship, there has been a tendency among historians to emphasize biblical philology as a force which, together with the new philosophy and the new science of the seventeenth century, caused the erosion of universal scriptural authority from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. A case in point is Jonathan Israel's impressive account of how biblical criticism in the hands of Spinoza paved the way for the …
Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe
Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Trinitarian Debate. Grantley McDonald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xviii + 384 pp. $120. - Volume 70 Issue 3
Nouveaux regards sur les “Apollons de collèges”
Nouveaux regards sur les “Apollons de collèges”: Figures du professeur humaniste en France dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle. Mathieu Ferrand and Nathaël Istasse, eds. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 532. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 414 pp. $105.30. - Volume 69 Issue 1
Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship
Mostly remembered for his library and for his biblical criticism, Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) played a central role in the early modern European world of learning. Taking his cue from the unlikely bedfellows Joseph Scaliger and René Descartes, Vossius published on chronology, biblical criticism, optics, African geography and Chinese civilization, while collecting, annotating and selling one of the century’s most precious libraries. He was appointed…
The Limits Of Transconfessional Contact In The Republic Of Letters Around 1600
The study of confessionalisation in relation to the Republic of Letters is not new, although it has been examined only in the more loosely formulated terms of the relationship between humanism and Protestantism. The Republic of Letters is usually, but often unconsciously, seen as a Protestant one. Lipsiuss great contemporary Joseph Scaliger left no doubt as to where he stood. Isaac Casaubon, the third man in the intellectual triumvirate of the Re…
Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius
Hadrianus Junius’ Animadversa And His Methods Of Scholarship
Hadrianus Junius' Animadversa of 1556 is subtitled 'a treasure-house of all sorts of erudition'. Junius was famous more for his influential book of emblems, his cultural history of Holland, Batavia , and his multilingual dictionary, Nomenclator , frequently reprinted and revised. Most of his editions of classical texts are left unmentioned in the prefaces of modern critical editions such as the Oxford, Teubner or Bude series, and his name survive…
Joseph Scaliger, Claude Saumaise, Isaac Casaubon and the Discovery of the Palatine Anthology (1606)
The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575)
Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) is generally regarded as the greatest humanist in the Northern Netherlands between the death of Erasmus in 1536 and the foundation of Leiden University in 1575. For both literary authors and professional philologists of the Golden Age, Junius remained the only significant point of reference on Dutch soil in the second and third quarters of the sixteenth century. As physician, lexicographer, historiographer, emblematis…
Philologie als Wissensmodell
Denis Thouard, Friedrich Vollhardt, and Fosca Mariani Zini, eds. Philologie als Wissensmodell. Pluralisierung und Autorität 20. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. x + 406 pp. index. illus. bibl. €99.95. ISBN: 978–3–11–022759–8. - Volume 64 Issue 2
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks
The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated ma…
Worlds Made by Words
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Humanism in an Age of Science
In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that …
Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars VIII
Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship
Mostly remembered for his library and for his biblical criticism, Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) played a central role in the early modern European world of learning. Taking his cue from the unlikely bedfellows Joseph Scaliger and René Descartes, Vossius published on chronology, biblical criticism, optics, African geography and Chinese civilization, while collecting, annotating and selling one of the century’s most precious libraries. He was appointed…
The ‘province’ of the Dutch Republic in the international Republic of Letters
One of the victims of nationalist historiography has been the intrinsically transnational culture of learning that was so vibrant in the United Provinces that this country was deemed a focal point of the international world of scholarship and science already in the early modern period. The history of the Republic of Letters promises to offer a fruitful alternative to nation-based history, precisely because of its apparent transnationalism, the mo…
Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars VIII
Humanism in an Age of Science
In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that …
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks
The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated ma…
Worlds Made by Words
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Limits Of Transconfessional Contact In The Republic Of Letters Around 1600
The study of confessionalisation in relation to the Republic of Letters is not new, although it has been examined only in the more loosely formulated terms of the relationship between humanism and Protestantism. The Republic of Letters is usually, but often unconsciously, seen as a Protestant one. Lipsiuss great contemporary Joseph Scaliger left no doubt as to where he stood. Isaac Casaubon, the third man in the intellectual triumvirate of the Re…
Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius
Hadrianus Junius’ Animadversa And His Methods Of Scholarship
Hadrianus Junius' Animadversa of 1556 is subtitled 'a treasure-house of all sorts of erudition'. Junius was famous more for his influential book of emblems, his cultural history of Holland, Batavia , and his multilingual dictionary, Nomenclator , frequently reprinted and revised. Most of his editions of classical texts are left unmentioned in the prefaces of modern critical editions such as the Oxford, Teubner or Bude series, and his name survive…
Joseph Scaliger, Claude Saumaise, Isaac Casaubon and the Discovery of the Palatine Anthology (1606)
The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575)
Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) is generally regarded as the greatest humanist in the Northern Netherlands between the death of Erasmus in 1536 and the foundation of Leiden University in 1575. For both literary authors and professional philologists of the Golden Age, Junius remained the only significant point of reference on Dutch soil in the second and third quarters of the sixteenth century. As physician, lexicographer, historiographer, emblematis…
Philologie als Wissensmodell
Denis Thouard, Friedrich Vollhardt, and Fosca Mariani Zini, eds. Philologie als Wissensmodell. Pluralisierung und Autorität 20. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. x + 406 pp. index. illus. bibl. €99.95. ISBN: 978–3–11–022759–8. - Volume 64 Issue 2
Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship
Mostly remembered for his library and for his biblical criticism, Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) played a central role in the early modern European world of learning. Taking his cue from the unlikely bedfellows Joseph Scaliger and René Descartes, Vossius published on chronology, biblical criticism, optics, African geography and Chinese civilization, while collecting, annotating and selling one of the century’s most precious libraries. He was appointed…
Nouveaux regards sur les “Apollons de collèges”
Nouveaux regards sur les “Apollons de collèges”: Figures du professeur humaniste en France dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle. Mathieu Ferrand and Nathaël Istasse, eds. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 532. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 414 pp. $105.30. - Volume 69 Issue 1
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age
Did innovative textual analysis reshape the relations between Christian believers and their churches in early modern confessional states? This volume explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion unde…
Making the States’ Translation (1637)
In the study of the history of biblical scholarship, there has been a tendency among historians to emphasize biblical philology as a force which, together with the new philosophy and the new science of the seventeenth century, caused the erosion of universal scriptural authority from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. A case in point is Jonathan Israel's impressive account of how biblical criticism in the hands of Spinoza paved the way for the …
Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe
Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Trinitarian Debate. Grantley McDonald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xviii + 384 pp. $120. - Volume 70 Issue 3
The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670
This book argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible aimed to stabilize the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable. Spinoza capitalized on this tradition in his notorious Theological-Political Treatise , published in the Dutch Republic in 1670. But the foundations on which his radical biblical scholarship is built were laid by Refo…
Claude Saumaise and the ‘Hairy War’ (1640–1650)
Chapter 6 shows that Claude Saumaise, who as a teenager was also coached by Scaliger by means of letters and who had taken his chair two decades after Scaliger’s death, was also his successor in terms of biblical scholarship. Moreover, Saumaise advertised biblical philology in the context of a violent public debate over public conduct: the question whether the apostle Paul thought that men could not wear long hair. In this highly advertised contr…
Radical Philology
Chapter 7 shows that Claude Saumaise provided, willy-nilly, a prop for Isaac de La Peyrère to support his heretical theory of the Men before Adam. The chapter demonstrates the importance of the medium in which biblical philology was conducted: La Peyrère made creative use of the scholarship of Scaliger and Saumaise and was accepted as company by the likes of André Rivet, as long as he kept his theory within very limited circulation. As soon as he…
Joseph Scaliger
Chapter 1 shows that in Leiden around 1600 the type of philology that undermined the stability of the biblical text was kept indoors or was restricted to private correspondence. The independently minded Joseph Scaliger focused on chronology and history, and the history of the Bible was part of his studies, although it did not stand at the centre of his attention. Scaliger was reluctant to publish his philological annotations on the Bible. He adop…
The “Hairy War” (1640–50)
Marc Fumaroli, The Republic of Letters
Marc Fumaroli's The Republic of Letters,1 which appeared in 2015 in French as La République des Lettres, and which has now been published in the aptly entitled series 'Margellos' World Republic of Letters' , testifies to a scholarly, or perhaps rather a literary, life dedicated to the largely forgotten tradition of a truly European scholarly social phenomenon: the 'Respublica litteraria' .This translation is to be welcomed; Fumaroli , as one of g…
Social Networking in the Republic of Knowledge
The ‘province’ of the Dutch Republic in the international Republic of Letters
One of the victims of nationalist historiography has been the intrinsically transnational culture of learning that was so vibrant in the United Provinces that this country was deemed a focal point of the international world of scholarship and science already in the early modern period. The history of the Republic of Letters promises to offer a fruitful alternative to nation-based history, precisely because of its apparent transnationalism, the mo…
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