Joseph Marino and Melinda Schlitt., eds., Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History: Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000. xiii + 509 pp. $99. ISBN: 1-58046- 062-3. - Victoria Kahn and Lorna Hutson., eds., Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. ix + 355 pp. $40. ISBN: 0-300-08485-4.

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-294
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Rebhorn
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Modern Europe

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Boutcher
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
Modern Europe

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne’s Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern Western university. Volume 1 focuses on contexts from within Montaigne’s own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume 2 focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. The two volumes work together to offer a new picture of the book’s significance in literary and intellectual history. The school of Montaigne potentially included everyone in early modern Europe with occasion and means to read and write for themselves and for their friends and family, unconstrained by an official function or scholastic institution. The Essais were shaped by the post-Reformation battle to regulate the educated individual’s judgement in reading and acting upon the two books bequeathed by God to man. The book of scriptures and the book of nature were becoming more accessible through print and manuscript cultures. But at the same time that access was being mediated more intensively by teachers such as clerics and humanists, by censors and institutions, by learned authors of past and present, and by commentaries and glosses upon those authors. Montaigne enfranchised the unofficial reader-writer with liberties of judgement offered and taken in the specific historical conditions of his era.

scholarly journals A New Perspective in Russian Intellectual History: Russian Political Thought in Early Modern Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Derek Offord
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
New Perspective

G. M. Hamburg, Russia’s Path Toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500–1801. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016, 912 p. ISBN: 9780300113136

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