The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought

The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and ThoughtThis volume addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar and medieval thought, to in depth analyses of the semantic family of uncertainty, as well as of the notion of divination; from case studies of the textual

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