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Habsburg intellectual history in its universal, imperial, and regional contexts: A Counter-Reformation account

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Abstract

The second introduction outlines the political and institutional environments the case studies of this book are situated in. It introduces the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy as three overlapping and intersecting political entities that constituted conflicting frameworks for the production of knowledge - especially in the field of politically relevant pasts. Key scholars like Bernhard Pez, Gottfried Bessel, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz are contextualized in this dynamic field of conflicting political models that simultaneously stood for differing uses of historical arguments. The article links up with the following introductory piece by William O’Reilly in that it deals with the same matters of historiography, chronology, and imperial personnel; in contrast to O’Reilly, however, it frames them not from the perspective of the established Habsburg empire but from that of the post-Westphalian world order and pre-modern global Catholicism. This paralleling of ultimately successful and unsuccessful developments allows for a less teleological view of Habsburg intellectual history while simultaneously relativising the all-too accepted “Epochengrenze” (epochal boundary) of 1740, which is still unduly believed to demarcate a “Baroque” from an “Enlightenment”.

Abstract

The second introduction outlines the political and institutional environments the case studies of this book are situated in. It introduces the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy as three overlapping and intersecting political entities that constituted conflicting frameworks for the production of knowledge - especially in the field of politically relevant pasts. Key scholars like Bernhard Pez, Gottfried Bessel, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz are contextualized in this dynamic field of conflicting political models that simultaneously stood for differing uses of historical arguments. The article links up with the following introductory piece by William O’Reilly in that it deals with the same matters of historiography, chronology, and imperial personnel; in contrast to O’Reilly, however, it frames them not from the perspective of the established Habsburg empire but from that of the post-Westphalian world order and pre-modern global Catholicism. This paralleling of ultimately successful and unsuccessful developments allows for a less teleological view of Habsburg intellectual history while simultaneously relativising the all-too accepted “Epochengrenze” (epochal boundary) of 1740, which is still unduly believed to demarcate a “Baroque” from an “Enlightenment”.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Introductions
  4. Introduction: The querelle that wasn’t 1
  5. Habsburg intellectual history in context. Two perspectives (roof intro) 21
  6. Habsburg intellectual history in its universal, imperial, and regional contexts: A Counter-Reformation account 23
  7. Habsburg intellectual history in a global context: revolution, evolution, innovation 53
  8. The Church
  9. Bernhard Pez challenges his abbot, as viewed from a curial perspective. New materials on a conflict situated between monastic discipline and theological antiquarianism 97
  10. Ignorant critics, learned colleagues, and evidence from the source: Bernhard Pez’s Apologia for the publication of The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin 119
  11. Die Rezeption der Constitutio Unigenitus (1713) im Alten Reich: eine unterschätzte Diskussion? 141
  12. The debate about the completion of the Cathedral of Milan during the eighteenth century. Innovation and continuity with regard to aesthetical, lexical, and theoretical issues 171
  13. Tradition and reform in the scholarship of Sebastiano Paoli OMD (1684–1751) between Vienna and Naples 193
  14. The Empire
  15. Verhandlungen über das Mittelalter zwischen Melk und Leipzig: Bernhard Pez’ Brief von einigen alten Poeten, welche in teutscher Sprache etwas geschrieben (1725) 215
  16. Wenn „große Männer“ fehlen: Argumentationsstrategien im Ringen um eine Studienreform an der Universität Wien zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts 241
  17. „Interdum optarem autoritatibus Tua magis muniri caeteroque philologico apparatu.“ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Kritik an Hermann von der Hardts rationalistischer Bibelauslegung 267
  18. Another querelle. The Usus Modernus Pandectarum and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire around 1700 293
  19. The Habsburg Monarchy
  20. Gebrauchtbuchhandel als neue Geschäftspraxis: Der Wiener Buchhandel des Johann Adam Schmidt (Nürnberg) zwischen Novitäten und Antiquariat (1730–1751) 311
  21. Der Streit um die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher. Gottfried Philipp von Spannagel (Wien) gegen Ignaz Franz Xaver von Wilhelm (München) 347
  22. Two visions of a sacred kingdom: Gabriel Hevenesi and Samuel Timon as expositors of Holy Hungary 393
  23. Old and new iconographic forms on the eastern border of the Habsburg Monarchy. Social prestige and family alliances in eighteenth-century Oltenia 415
  24. New uses of an old theme: The Roman origins of Romanians in the discourse of the Greek Catholic elite in eighteenth-century Transylvania 441
  25. The Istoria of Francesco Ottieri and the writing of modern history in early eighteenth-century Italy 459
  26. Antiquos reverentia, novos aequitate: „Moderne“ Antikerezeption bei Carl Gustav Heraeus 479
  27. Habsburgs beste Quellen. Tradition und Innovation in der Balneologie des 18. Jahrhunderts 511
  28. Das Josephinische Eherecht. Eine Gemengelage aus Altem und Neuem im Dienste einer bürgerlich-patriarchalen Geschlechterordnung 529
  29. Epilogues
  30. Interactive antiquities: A Relational History 565
  31. Querelle – Parallèle – Paradoxe – Guerre. Framing the dispute between Ancients and Moderns in the early modern periodical press (Nouvelles littéraires, Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen) 607
  32. Index of People 639
  33. Index of Places 655
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110653052-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Introductions
  4. Introduction: The querelle that wasn’t 1
  5. Habsburg intellectual history in context. Two perspectives (roof intro) 21
  6. Habsburg intellectual history in its universal, imperial, and regional contexts: A Counter-Reformation account 23
  7. Habsburg intellectual history in a global context: revolution, evolution, innovation 53
  8. The Church
  9. Bernhard Pez challenges his abbot, as viewed from a curial perspective. New materials on a conflict situated between monastic discipline and theological antiquarianism 97
  10. Ignorant critics, learned colleagues, and evidence from the source: Bernhard Pez’s Apologia for the publication of The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin 119
  11. Die Rezeption der Constitutio Unigenitus (1713) im Alten Reich: eine unterschätzte Diskussion? 141
  12. The debate about the completion of the Cathedral of Milan during the eighteenth century. Innovation and continuity with regard to aesthetical, lexical, and theoretical issues 171
  13. Tradition and reform in the scholarship of Sebastiano Paoli OMD (1684–1751) between Vienna and Naples 193
  14. The Empire
  15. Verhandlungen über das Mittelalter zwischen Melk und Leipzig: Bernhard Pez’ Brief von einigen alten Poeten, welche in teutscher Sprache etwas geschrieben (1725) 215
  16. Wenn „große Männer“ fehlen: Argumentationsstrategien im Ringen um eine Studienreform an der Universität Wien zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts 241
  17. „Interdum optarem autoritatibus Tua magis muniri caeteroque philologico apparatu.“ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Kritik an Hermann von der Hardts rationalistischer Bibelauslegung 267
  18. Another querelle. The Usus Modernus Pandectarum and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire around 1700 293
  19. The Habsburg Monarchy
  20. Gebrauchtbuchhandel als neue Geschäftspraxis: Der Wiener Buchhandel des Johann Adam Schmidt (Nürnberg) zwischen Novitäten und Antiquariat (1730–1751) 311
  21. Der Streit um die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher. Gottfried Philipp von Spannagel (Wien) gegen Ignaz Franz Xaver von Wilhelm (München) 347
  22. Two visions of a sacred kingdom: Gabriel Hevenesi and Samuel Timon as expositors of Holy Hungary 393
  23. Old and new iconographic forms on the eastern border of the Habsburg Monarchy. Social prestige and family alliances in eighteenth-century Oltenia 415
  24. New uses of an old theme: The Roman origins of Romanians in the discourse of the Greek Catholic elite in eighteenth-century Transylvania 441
  25. The Istoria of Francesco Ottieri and the writing of modern history in early eighteenth-century Italy 459
  26. Antiquos reverentia, novos aequitate: „Moderne“ Antikerezeption bei Carl Gustav Heraeus 479
  27. Habsburgs beste Quellen. Tradition und Innovation in der Balneologie des 18. Jahrhunderts 511
  28. Das Josephinische Eherecht. Eine Gemengelage aus Altem und Neuem im Dienste einer bürgerlich-patriarchalen Geschlechterordnung 529
  29. Epilogues
  30. Interactive antiquities: A Relational History 565
  31. Querelle – Parallèle – Paradoxe – Guerre. Framing the dispute between Ancients and Moderns in the early modern periodical press (Nouvelles littéraires, Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen) 607
  32. Index of People 639
  33. Index of Places 655
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