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Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge (1400 –1700)
The Early Modern Cultures of Neo-Latin Drama Philip Ford, Andrew Taylor (eds)
Karl Enenkel, Henk Nellen (eds)
Profound study of one of the most important genres within Humanist scholarship Between 1400 and 1700 the political, religious, intelÂlec tual, and geoÂgraphic landscape was profoundÂly chanÂged by the Reformation, HumaÂnism, the rise of empiriÂcal science, the invention of printing technoÂlogy, and the discovery of the New World. The late medieval and early modern intellectuals felt a need to respond to the chan ges and embarked on a scholarly proÂgramÂme of a quality and extent hitherto unknown: the whole body of the literature of antiquity, including the Bible, was to be reedited and furnished with comÂmentaries. This book sheds light on the various ways in which classical authors and the Bible were commented on, the types of comÂmenÂtary, the comÂmenÂÂting strateÂgies that were used, the various kinds of knowledge that were collecÂted, created, and transÂÂÂmitted. For a list of contributing authors (13) and the table of content go to www.lup.be.
The vitality and power of expression of Neo-Latin Drama The essays in this collection illustrate the vitality of NeoLatin drama in early modern Europe, arising from its combination of classical models with deep-rooted ver naÂcular traditions. While the plays were often comÂÂposed in a school or university, the dramatists selÂdom neglec ted to appeal to a broad audience, incluÂding non-Latin ists. Neo-Latin drama in all its forms offered a freeÂÂdom of expression and form which is rare in other Renaissance literary genres. For a list of contributing authors (13) and the table of content go to www.lup.be. philip ford is Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, Associate of the Belgian Royal Academy, and President of fisier. andrew taylor is College Lecturer in English at Churchill College, Cambridge, specializing in Tudor literature. He is Secretary of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies and the Cambridge Society for NeoLatin Studies.
karl enenkel is Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (wwu), Münster. henk nellen is Research Fellow at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern Period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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€ 79,50 / £69.50 isbn 978 90 5867 936 9 April 2013 Paperback, 16 x 24 cm ca. 528 p. English Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 33
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€ 49,50 / £43.00 isbn 978 90 5867 926 0 February 2013 Paperback, 16 x 24 cm ca. 224 p. English Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 32
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