Contents

pp 5-8

Introduction: The Dawn of the Modern Humanities

pp 9-20

I - Linguistics and Philology

pp 21-22

The Rise of Philology: The Comparative Method, the Historicist Turn and the Surreptitious Influence of Giambattista Vico

pp 23-36

Linguistics ‘ante litteram’: Compiling and Transmitting Views on the Diversity and Kinship of Languages before the Nineteenth Century

pp 37-54

The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline: Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder

pp 55-70

II - The Humanities and the Sciences

pp 71-72

The Mutual Making of Sciences and Humanities: Willebrord Snellius, Jacob Golius, and the Early Modern Entanglement of Mathematics and Philology

pp 73-92

A ‘Human’ Science: Hawkins’s Science of Music

pp 93-102

Bopp the Builder. Discipline Formation as Hybridization: The Case of Comparative Linguistics

pp 103-128

III - Writing History and Intellectual History

pp 129-130

Nineteenth-Century Historicism and Its Predecessors: Historical Experience, Historical Ontology and Historical Method

pp 131-148

Fact and Fancy in Nineteenth-Century Historiography and Fiction: The Case of Macaulay and Roidis

pp 149-166

The Humanities as the Stronghold of Freedom: John Milton’s Areopagitica and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty

pp 167-182

IV - The Impact of the East

pp 183-184

The Impact on the European Humanities of Early Reports from Catholic Missionaries from China, Tibet and Japan between 1600 and 1700

pp 185-208

The Middle Kingdom in the Low Countries: Sinology in the Seventeenth- Century Netherlands

pp 209-242

The Oriental Origins of Orientalism: The Case of Dimitrie Cantemir

pp 243-264

V - Artworks and Texts

pp 265-266

The Role of Emotions in the Development of Artistic Theory and the System of Literary Genres

pp 267-282

Philology and the History of Art

pp 283-300

VI - Literature and Rhetoric

pp 301-302

Bourgeois versus Aristocratic Models of Scholarship: Medieval Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions, 1701-1751

pp 303-320

Ancients, Moderns and the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Historiography

pp 321-336

The Afterlife of Rhetoric in Hobbes, Vico and Nietzsche

pp 337-354

VII - Academic Communities

pp 355-356

The Documents of Feith: The Centralization of the Archive in Nineteenth- Century Historiography

pp 357-376

Humboldt in Copenhagen: Discipline Formation in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen in the Nineteenth Century

pp 377-396

The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden

pp 397-412