Critical Monks : The German Benedictines, 1680-1740.

Intro -- Critical Monks: The German Benedictines, 1680-1740 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: How to Read This Book -- 1 "Germania Benedictina -- 1.1 Layers of Time - between Trent and the Enlightenment -- 1.2 Layers of Space: "Benedictine Europe -- 1.3 Layers of Knowledge: Religious Communities in Early Modern Central Europe -- 1.4 Layers of Demography: Being a Benedictine monk -- 1.5 On Sources, Bibliography, and Terminology -- 1.6 Summary -- 2 Multiple Perspectives - on the Same Object? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 "Die Forschungszentren der deutschen Benediktiner" and the "Katholische Frühaufklärung -- 2.3 "Enlightened Monks" - and "Monastic Humanism -- 2.4 Making Monks Enlightened: the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- 2.5 Benedictine Tradition(s) -- 2.6 Looking Ahead from 1700: the Making of "Enlightened Monasticism" in the 18th Century -- 2.7 Looking Back from 1700: 1200 Years of Prehistories for Benedictine Scholarly Practice -- 2.8 Summary -- 3 Knowledge, Institution and Conflict in the Benedictine Context -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Inner Circulation of Knowledge: Congregation, University, or Academy? -- 3.3 German and French Benedictines -- 3.4 The Protestants: Res publica literaria and Germania -- 3.5 Knowledge, Required: the State, the Church - and the Aristocracy -- 3.6 Diverse Publics, Diverse Censorships -- 3.7 Conflict and Dissent in the Benedictine Context -- 3.8 Conclusion: on the Institutional and Epistemological Implications of Knowledge Change -- 4 Tropes and Metaphors of Monastic Knowledge -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 "Reform", "Revolution", and the "Old-New -- 4.3 Four Exemplary Ambiguities: "Aufklärung", "Light", "Learned Nuns", "Monkish Fables -- 4.4 "Criticism" and "Scholasticism -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 A Reclassification of Knowledge? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Philosophy.

5.2.1 Challenges, 1: Benedictine Thomism - Unsuccessfully Contested -- 5.2.2 Challenges, 2: the Assimilation of Christian Wolff -- 5.2.3 Trends, 1: Mathematics, Nature and Observation -- 5.2.4 Trends, 2: Moral Philosophy -- 5.3 History and Criticism -- 5.3.1 Challenges, 1: (Multiple) Proof - and (Individual) Taste -- 5.3.2 Challenges, 2: on Historicity -- 5.3.3 Trends, 1: the "Order" as Framework -- 5.3.4 Trends, 2: "Germany" - and "Austria" as Frameworks -- 5.4 (Canon) Law -- 5.4.1 Challenges: the Negotiable Status of Monastic Rules and Habits -- 5.4.2 Trends: "Germanized", "Naturalized" and "Historicized" Canon Law -- 5.5 Theology -- 5.6 Summary -- 6 Conclusions, Inheritances, Limits, Confessions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Should We Speak of a "Monastic Enlightenment"? And if So, What Came before It? -- 6.3 On Methodology -- Illustrations -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index of Persons and Works.

In Critical Monks Wallnig offers a new, contextualized interpretation of German Benedictine scholarship around 1700.

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