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Georg Calixtus, Isaac Casaubon, and the Consensus of Antiquity
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 73, Number 1, January 2012
- pp. 1-23
- 10.1353/jhi.2012.0007
- Article
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This article explores the relationship between Georg Calixtus (1586-1656) and Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614). It does this in order to highlight an oversight in the existing literature concerning Calixtus, and to encourage scholars to revisit the work of Early Modern figures who have previously been considered only from modern disciplinary perspectives. By emphasizing the relationship between Calixtus and Casaubon, this article argues that Calixtus was potentially exposed to much broader circles of intellectual debate than has previously been considered, and that a re-evaluation of his work in light of these debates is therefore in order.