Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe : An Episode in the History of the Humanities (Proceedings of the British Academy)

Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers the most comprehensive account thus far of the relationship between religious identity-formation and the history of knowledge in early modern Europe.