HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP SEMINAR

Fridays at 5.00 p.m. in the Lecture Room

Programme Spring Term 2012

13 January
Jean-Louis Quantin
French scholars and Roman censorship, 16th-18th centuries

20 January
Jürgen Trabant
Signum: on Dante's ideal language

27 January
Peter Tóth
'Strike down and dilacerate these useless and vain tales'. J.A. Fabricius' notion of 'apocrypha' and its paralyzing impact

3 February
Gabor Bolonyai
Benedictus' dictionary: some notes on the history of Greek-Latin lexica in the 15th century

10 February
Irena Backus
Leibniz, Gilbert Burnet and seventeenth-century discussions on predestination

17 February
Constance Blackwell
Jacob Brucker (1696-1770): Historia critica philosophiae – antecedents and consequences

2 March
Thomas Wallnig
“Scholastic trifles” vs “salubrious criticism”: on the scholarly dimension of the German Benedictines' struggle for educational reform in the early 18th century