Ancients and Moderns in Europe

Alexis Tadié is professor of English Literature at Sorbonne Université, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He has held visiting research fellowships at various universities, including recently Durham University and Trinity College, Cambridge.

• Paddy Bullard and Alexis Tadié, IntroductionPart I: Ancient knowledge and modern mediations1. Vittoria Feola, The Ancients with the Moderns: Oxford’s approaches to publishing ancient science2. Alexis Tadié, Ancients, Moderns and the language of criticism3. Stéphane Van Damme, Digging authority: archaeological controversies and the recognition of the metropolitan past in early eighteenth-century ParisPart II: Logic and criticism across borders4. Martine Pécharman, From Lockean logic to Cartesian(ised) logic: the case of Locke’s Essay and its contemporary controversial reception5. Marcus Walsh, Scholarly documentation in the Enlightenment: validation and interpretation6. 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 practices7. Théodora Psychoyou, Ancients and Moderns, Italians and French: the seventeenth-century quarrel over music, its status and transformations8. Elisabeth Lavezzi, Painting and the tripartite model in Charles Perrault’s Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes9. 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 healingPart IV: The persistence of the Quarrel11. Amedeo Quondam, Petrarch and the invention of synchrony12. Karin Kukkonen, Samuel Richardson among the Ancients and Moderns13. Ourida Mostefai, Finding ancient men in modern times: anachronism and the critique of modernity in Rousseau14. Ritchie Robertson, Ancients, Moderns and the future: the Querelle in Germany from Winckelmann to SchillerSummariesBiographies of contributorsBibliographyIndex

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