Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

Edited by Andrew C. Fix, Lafayette College, Easton

Editorial Board/Council member:

Ursula Renz

Jacqueline Lagrée

Anthony Uhlmann

Series Editor:

Andrew Fix

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0920-8607
€109.00$152.00
Series:
BSIH
Volume:
218/13
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004225657
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New Title
A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise De Cive of the Learned Mr Hobbes
Lambert van Velthuysen. Edited and translated by Malcolm de Mowbray. With an introduction by Catherine Secretan.
The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency (1651) by Lambert van Velthuysen deduces the nature of virtue and vice and the right to punish crimes from the Hobbesian principle of self-preservation.
€129.00$177.00
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BSIH
Volume:
207/12
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004212367
Adriaan Koerbagh, A Light Shining in Dark Places, to Illuminate the Main Questions of Theology and Religion
Edited and translated by Michiel Wielema
This book is the first English edition of a major critique of organized religion. A rational plea for tolerance and free thought, Adriaan Koerbagh's A Light Shining in Dark Places (1668) demolishes the authority of the Christian revelation and the churches.
€102.00$132.00
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BSIH
Volume:
205/11
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004209268
The Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza’s Ethica
Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro
Brill authors Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro discovered the original manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica" in the Vatican library. This spectacular discovery attracted a lot of media attention. This edition will be published in Brill's Texts and Sources on Intellectual History (BSIH) in August. The ...
€133.00$172.00
Series:
BSIH
Volume:
201/10
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004196087
Agostino Nifo De intellectu
Edited by Leen Spruit
This books offers an annotated edition of Nifo’s De intellectu (1503), including an extensive analytical summary of the contents, as well as a chronology of Nifo’s life and works, and a full index of the chapters of this work.
€102.00$132.00
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BSIH
Volume:
200/9
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004201521
Iusti Lipsii Saturnalium Sermonum libri duo, qui de gladiatoribus
Herausgegeben von Andrea Steenbeek
In the Saturnalian dialogues (1582) Lipsius describes all aspects of the gladiatorial combats. This theme fits perfectly well into his other historiographical works about roman customs and institutions, but above all he presents the gladiators as enlightening examples in his stoic ethical ...
€153.00$198.00
Series:
BSIH
Volume:
195/8
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004194038
The Anatomy of Despondency
Jaap Harskamp
In a text-orientated approach, this study presents a rich mosaic depicting a tradition of European socio-cultural criticism since the French Revolution. Accepting the inevitability of technological advance, critics rejected the proud assumption of progress and stressed the negatives instead.
€104.00$135.00
Series:
BSIH
Volume:
189/7
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004185906
Angelo Poliziano's Lamia
Edited by Christopher S. Celenza
This book presents the first English translation of an important Renaissance Latin text: Angelo Poliziano’s Lamia, an opening oration to a 1492 course at the University of Florence that amounts to a rethinking of the mission and nature of philosophy. An edition of the Latin text is also ...
€110.00$142.00
Series:
BSIH
Volume:
174/6
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004175976
James of Viterbo: De regimine Christiano
Edited by R.W. Dyson
De regimine Christiano, produced at the height of the great conflict of 1296-1303 between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair of France, is a detailed and rigorous defence of the papacy’s claim to supremacy even in temporal matters.
€110.00$142.00
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BSIH
Volume:
171/5
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Hardback
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ISBN13:
9789004173187
Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung der katholischen Religion (1789)
Edited and introduced by Ulrich L. Lehner
Despite the importance the monks had as carriers of programmatic Enlightenment ideas, few of their original texts are available in modern editions. This edition contributes to filling this lacuna by publishing Dom Beda Mayr’s (1742–1794) ecumenical Catholic theology.
€110.00$142.00
Series:
BSIH
Volume:
158/4
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004163188
John Stewart of Baldynneis Roland Furious
Donna C. Heddle
This critical edition of a Scots translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso will provide an essential primary key text and a useful academic tool for tracing the development of Scottish poetry and of the influences, European and otherwise, on it.
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