Secularisation and the Leiden Circle

List of Illustrations......Page 12


Preface......Page 14
1. Question And Term......Page 16
2. Method: Leiden as Illustration......Page 22
2.1. The Leiden Circle......Page 24
3.1. The Omnipresence of Theology: Generic Problems and Solutions......Page 29
3.2. A Specific Example: The Reign of Philip IV......Page 36
3.3. The Persistence of Theological Politics......Page 41
4.1. The Religious Foundations of Early Modernity: Generic Problems and Solutions......Page 45
4.2. A Specific Example: Historicisation as Secularisation’s Point of Entry......Page 48
5. Scaliger’s Secularising Historiography: A Valuable Start to Constructing Leiden as Illustration......Page 57
1. Vita Brevis......Page 64
2. Scaliger’s Significance......Page 67
3. Premature Universal History: The French Origins 
of Scaliger’s Method......Page 68
4. Everything a Target: History as Master Discipline......Page 75
4.1. First Illustration of History as the Master Discipline: Historical vs. Astronomical Method......Page 76
4.2. Second Illustration of History as the Master Discipline: 
History vs. Theology......Page 88
5. Scaligerian History as Master Discipline: 
Consequences for the Leiden Circle......Page 101
1. Vita Brevis......Page 108
2	Virtuous Poverty of Reason: The Bucolic Heinsius (1603-4)......Page 111
3. Dwelling on the Pagan-Christian Borders: 
Heinsius and Cunaeus on Nonnus (1610)......Page 115
4. Enter Secularisation: On The Constitution 
of Tragedy (1611)......Page 119
4.1. Intellectual Context: Theatre and Sixteenth-Century Politics of Religion......Page 122
4.2. A Close Textual Analysis of DTC......Page 132
4.3. DTC and Secularisation......Page 154
4.4. Reception and Controversy......Page 158
4.5. Heinsius’s Secularising Contributions in DTC and Related Works......Page 163
5. On the Superiority and Dignity of History (1613)......Page 165
5.1. The Greatest Good: Eternal Life......Page 166
5.2. Universal-Particular in DPDH......Page 169
5.3. Epistemic Humility......Page 172
5.4. The Politics of Writing History......Page 174
5.5. History-Writing Polities......Page 176
5.6. History’s Triumphal March......Page 178
5.7 Unsecularised Counterparts of Triumph and Immortality through Historiography......Page 181
6. Hymns to Gods of Frenzy: Lof-sanck Van Bacchus (1614), Lof-sanck Van Jesus Christus (1616)......Page 185
6.1. Background......Page 186
6.2. Frenzy and the Brethren of the Common Life:The Epistemic Context......Page 190
6.3. The Lofzangen: Satire, Satyr, Silenos and Christ......Page 192
Cunaeus: Sophia’s Dream......Page 216
1. Vita Brevis......Page 217
1.1. Leiden’s Young Zeelanders......Page 219
2. Sardi Venales......Page 227
2.1. Brief Introduction: Text, Context, Reception......Page 228
2.2. Textual Analysis: Text, Context, Reception......Page 234
1. Vita Brevis......Page 398
2.1. Introduction......Page 402
2.2. Textual Analysis......Page 403
3. Conclusion: from Fox to Hedgehog......Page 448
Conclusion and Outlook......Page 454
Excerpts from the exegetical tradition......Page 462
Bibliography......Page 492
Index
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