Theology
Jan-Hendryk de Boer
Die Gelehrtenwelt ordnen
Zur Genese des hegemonialen Humanismus um 1500
[Arranging the World of Scholars. On the Beginnings of Hegemonic Humanism Around 1500.]
unrevised e-book edition 2020; Original edition 2017; 2017. IX, 671 pages.
Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation 101
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Published in German.
In this volume, Jan-Hendryk de Boer investigates the upheaval in the world of scholars in the Roman-German Empire at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. He shows how during this time hegemonic humanism developed as a new discursive formation. This re-organised the humanistic movement as well as its relationship to scholasticism and ultimately the place of humanism in the scholarly world as a whole. After humanistic ideas were initially taken on board as being relatively unproblematic, the representatives of hegemonic humanism, such as poets, grammarians and philologists, claimed that they alone were in possession of useful skills and relevant knowledge. In a cultural transfer of the corresponding developments in Italy, a scholastic-humanist antagonism was generated that is still reflected in today's research.