{"title":"How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters.","authors":"Diego Pirillo","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949928","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949928","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the Republic of Letters has become today a main area of interdisciplinary research, early North America has remained largely impermeable to this new body of scholarship. In this article I use the category of the Republic of Letters to overcome some of the limitations of the \"Atlantic world\" paradigm and to shed new light on the intellectual history of eighteenth-century America. Along with studying the means through which American savants gathered information about scholarly trends and recent publications, I also bring to light the strategies they used to actively contribute to the production and organization of knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 1","pages":"75-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applied Aesthetics and the Musical Public on the Threshold of Romanticism.","authors":"Rolf Strøm-Olsen","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a966905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a966905","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rise of a musical public in the early nineteenth century has been recognized as an important example of what Habermas identified as the emerging bourgeois public sphere. This article explores how patterns of musical consumption were shaped by the authority of music-critical journalism, especially given contemporary critiques about the aesthetic worth of instrumental music. To assert music's aesthetic legitimacy, the leading music journal of the period developed a critical discourse, characterized by the use of an \"applied aesthetics,\" to guide public preferences governing music consumption and to explicate these choices within larger philosophical debates about music's aesthetic value.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 3","pages":"537-568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples's ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.","authors":"Christa Lundberg","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a959039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a959039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Responding to recent studies on the reception of Church Fathers, this paper contributes a study of how Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples edited the writings of ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite in Latin. Focusing on how Lefèvre revised the Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439), I argue that Lefèvre adapted Traversari's text to a new context by aligning the translation with earlier Latin renderings. The article thereby undermines earlier assumptions about Lefèvre's engagement with Greek manuscripts, demonstrates continuities in the use of Latin translations of Greek patristics before and after printing, and highlights the cultural dimension of the editor's craft.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 2","pages":"355-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patristic Translations and the Patronage of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-55).","authors":"Annet den Haan","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a959037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a959037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper discusses humanist translations of Greek patristic texts dedicated to Pope Nicholas V. Patristic studies were particularly relevant for his pontificate, which followed the Council of Ferrara-Florence and witnessed the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks. Nicholas's patronage was informed by his wish to unite the eastern and the western church, make Rome the ultimate capital of the Christian world, and preserve the literary heritage of the Byzantine empire. To determine the role patristics played in his translation project, this paper situates the patristic translations dedicated to him in the context of his translation patronage and collecting activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 2","pages":"325-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144034488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Written in the Stars? Alphabets and Angels in Early Modern Europe.","authors":"Kirsten Macfarlane","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a966903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a966903","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reconstructs the early modern growth of interest in Brillenbuchstaben, the mysterious characters commonly found in medieval Jewish kabbalistic manuscripts. It charts the confused process by which these characters were granted authority among learned Christians as alphabets derived from the stars and authored by the angels themselves. It argues that by the mid-seventeenth century, these ideas had become mainstream enough to pose serious threats (in the eyes of at least one respected theologian) to the traditional Christian understanding of angels. It concludes with reflections on the significance of these findings for the history of knowledge in early modern Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 3","pages":"473-506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying, Translating, and Editing the Greek Fathers in Lorenzo's Florence: Pico, Poliziano, and Ficino.","authors":"Francisco Bastitta Harriet","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a959038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a959038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores Greek patristic authors as sources for the philosophical and philological endeavors in Lorenzo de' Medici's entourage. Throughout their writings, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola celebrate the Greek Fathers' complex and elegant synthesis of ancient philosophy and Christian wisdom. Ficino also translates and publishes texts by pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and by Athenagoras along with other Platonic undertakings. Pico's affection for and pervasive knowledge of their tradition is even greater, so much so that his zeal seems to have inspired Poliziano's tardy patristic scholarship as well as Lorenzo's relentless efforts to enlarge the Medici library.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 2","pages":"339-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiritual and Medical Melancholy in Lutheran Responses to Johann Weyer's Criticism of the Witch Trials.","authors":"Peter A Morton","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949926","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines responses from Lutheran pastors, theologians, and physicians to the arguments given by Johann Weyer in 1563 that those women who confessed to a pact with the devil suffered from melancholy and were thus not responsible for their acts. Weyer's conception of melancholy was a medical one, yet among Lutheran pastors and theologians the concept of a spiritual form of melancholy emerged that came from religious sources. The article clarifies the difference between the concepts of medical and spiritual melancholy within Lutheranism and reviews the respective roles they played in the debates over Weyer's arguments.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 1","pages":"21-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notices.","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a966908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a966908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 3","pages":"627"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notices.","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a949933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 1","pages":"213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching and Being Taught: Melanchthon's Editions of the Greek Fathers and His Early Theological Thinking.","authors":"Marta Quatrale","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a959040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a959040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first three years of Melanchthon's stay in Wittenberg (1518-1521) are marked by the \"hybrid\" nature of his figure. Until the publication of his Loci communes, he was enrolled as a theology student. Meanwhile, he worked as professor of ancient Greek. In these years, he also moved from an \"Erasmian\" to a \"Lutheran\" position. Did his relentless work on the Greek Fathers in a firmly Augustinian environment play a role in shaping Melanchthon's interpretation of Luther's standpoint? To what extent did this investigation affect the incipient theological thinking of the praeceptor Germaniae as we know it?</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 2","pages":"367-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}