Conveners
S.2.2. Text and Transmission: Interpretive Practices and Scholarly Networks in Early Modern Europe
- Vladimír Urbánek (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Lenka Řezníková (Institute of Philosphy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
- Jiri Michalik (Palacky University, Olomouc)
Description
Chair: Gerhard Wiesenfeldt
Etymology is often regarded as a branch of linguistics that explores the historical origins of words by tracing their sound changes. However, in the early modern period, etymology was a strongly presentist concept deeply connected to knowledge. Scholars searched for the supposed original meanings to uncover hidden truths, recover ancient wisdom, and reaffirm divine revelation. In many fields...
This paper focuses on textual practices related to the creation, communication and circulation of mid-seventeenth-century prophetic texts. They have been studied as tools of political propaganda during the Thirty Years War, in relation to apocalyptic discourses and to biographies of individual actors, including one of the most active promoters and disseminators of early modern prophecies,...
The Lutheran physician and alchemist Andreas Libavius is known as one of the first critics of the Rosicrucian manifestos. However, his criticism has received little analysis to date. The Czech Brethren theologian, politician and religious scholar Václav Budovec of Budov has also written critically on the reception of the Rosicrucian manifestos. Budovec's criticism has not yet been...
