Paddy Bullard and Alexis Tadié, Introduction
Part I: Ancient knowledge and modern mediations
1. Vittoria Feola, The Ancients with the Moderns:
Oxford’s approaches to publishing ancient science
2. Alexis Tadié, Ancients, Moderns and the language of
criticism
3. Stéphane Van Damme, Digging authority: archaeological
controversies and the recognition of the metropolitan past in early
eighteenth-century Paris
Part II: Logic and criticism across borders
4. Martine Pécharman, From Lockean logic to Cartesian(ised) logic:
the case of Locke’s Essay and its contemporary
controversial reception
5. Marcus Walsh, Scholarly documentation in the Enlightenment:
validation and interpretation
6. Karen Collis, Reading the Ancients at the turn of the century:
the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and Jean Le Clerc
(1657-1736)
Part III: Conversing with the Ancients: arts and practices
7. Théodora Psychoyou, Ancients and Moderns, Italians and French:
the seventeenth-century quarrel over music, its status and
transformations
8. Elisabeth Lavezzi, Painting and the tripartite model in Charles
Perrault’s Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes
9. Paddy Bullard, John Evelyn as modern architect and ancient
gardener: ‘Lessons of perpetual practice’
10. Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Ancient medicine, modern quackery:
Bernard Mandeville and the rhetoric of healing
Part IV: The persistence of the Quarrel
11. Amedeo Quondam, Petrarch and the invention of synchrony
12. Karin Kukkonen, Samuel Richardson among the Ancients and
Moderns
13. Ourida Mostefai, Finding ancient men in modern times:
anachronism and the critique of modernity in Rousseau
14. Ritchie Robertson, Ancients, Moderns and the future:
the Querelle in Germany from Winckelmann to Schiller
Summaries
Biographies of contributors
Bibliography
Index
Reviews 'This volume makes a valuable contribution to scholarship
on the Ancients and Moderns debate. In shifting attention away from
the more polemical episodes of the dispute and moving beyond
national perspectives, it sheds light on the long-term impacts of
comparisons between antiquity and modernity on European
intellectual life, particularly its impact on the development of
disciplinary practices in various fields.'
- Intellectual History Review
'While the title of this volume at first appears to perpetuate the
notion of a clearly identifiable conflict between two opposing
intellectual groups, what is offered here is far more nuanced, a
consequence of the research project from which it emanated. [...]
Rather than treat intellectual history narrowly, this volume, rich
in subject matter, looks more broadly.'
Katherine A. East, Eighteenth-Century Life
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