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Intellectual history

the late seventeenth-century debate over whether modern learning and literature could equal or surpass those of antiquity.

In intellectual history, quarrel of the ancients and the moderns refers to the late seventeenth-century debate over whether modern learning and literature could equal or surpass those of antiquity. This meaning comes from Levine (1991) in The Battle of the Books.[1]

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  1. Levine, J. M. (1991). The Battle of the Books. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801425370

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