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Antiquity and antiquarianism

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Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie Jan 2003

Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie

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This paper explores the uses of published illustrations of coins in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarian works, relating them to the shift in the affective value of classical antiquity from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment.

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Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie Jan 2003

Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie

Brian W. Ogilvie

This paper explores the uses of published illustrations of coins in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarian works, relating them to the shift in the affective value of classical antiquity from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment.

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Exemplarity And The Use Of Antiquity In Erasmus, Brian W. Ogilvie Jan 2001

Exemplarity And The Use Of Antiquity In Erasmus, Brian W. Ogilvie

History Department Faculty Publication Series

This paper explores Erasmus’s creative response to the tension between his idealization of antiquity and his Christian commitments. Because he did not distinguish ethical judgments from taste, Erasmus contradicted himself on the value of antiquity and hedged it about with many restrictions.

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Exemplarity And The Use Of Antiquity In Erasmus, Brian W. Ogilvie Jan 2001

Exemplarity And The Use Of Antiquity In Erasmus, Brian W. Ogilvie

Brian W. Ogilvie

This paper explores Erasmus’s creative response to the tension between his idealization of antiquity and his Christian commitments. Because he did not distinguish ethical judgments from taste, Erasmus contradicted himself on the value of antiquity and hedged it about with many restrictions.

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