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Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference

16–19 Sept 2025
Istanbul
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S.2.2. Text and Transmission: Interpretive Practices and Scholarly Networks in Early Modern Europe

17 Sept 2025, 09:15
ROOM 2 (Amfi 9) (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

ROOM 2 (Amfi 9)

Istanbul University Faculty of Letters

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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)

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Chair: Gerhard Wiesenfeldt

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  1. Rooted or Planted? The Power of Etymology in J. A. Comenius and Early Modern Culture of Knowledge
    Lenka Řezníková (Institute of Philosphy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
    17/09/2025, 09:15
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    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...

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  2. News and Prophecy Between Upper Hungary and Amsterdam: Mikuláš Drabík, Jan Amos Comenius and Learned Communication
    Vladimír Urbánek (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
    17/09/2025, 09:35
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    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,...

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  3. Early Critics of the Rosicrucian Manifestos: Budovec and Libavius
    Jiri Michalik (Palacky University, Olomouc)
    17/09/2025, 09:55
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    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...

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