Recreating Ancient History: Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period
Karl A.E. Enenkel, Jan L. de Jong and Jeanine De Landtsheer
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Biographical note
Karl Enenkel teaches Latin and Neo-Latin literature in the Department of Classics, Leiden University. He is the author of Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. Kritische Textausgabe und ideengeschichtlicher Kommentar (1990), of Kulturoptimismus und Kulturpessimismus in der Renaissance (1995), and of numerous articles on Italian and Dutch humanism. He is the editor of Lipsius in Leiden (1997) and Modelling the Individual Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance.
Jan L. de Jong, Ph.D. (1987) in Art History, Leiden University, is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles on sixteenth century Italian history painting.
Jeanine De Landtsheer, Ph.D. in Classical Languages (1993), Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven, focuses on Neolatin studies and History of the Humanism, more particularly Justus Lipsius, his works and correspondence. Publications include Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, V-VII (1592-1594); VIII (1595)(Brepols), the first edition of Justus Lipsius’s Diva Virgo Lovaniensis (Leuven Univ. Press, 2001) and Desiderius Erasmus, Gesprekken. Ingeleid, vertaald en toegelicht (Querido, 2001).
Jan L. de Jong, Ph.D. (1987) in Art History, Leiden University, is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles on sixteenth century Italian history painting.
Jeanine De Landtsheer, Ph.D. in Classical Languages (1993), Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven, focuses on Neolatin studies and History of the Humanism, more particularly Justus Lipsius, his works and correspondence. Publications include Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, V-VII (1592-1594); VIII (1595)(Brepols), the first edition of Justus Lipsius’s Diva Virgo Lovaniensis (Leuven Univ. Press, 2001) and Desiderius Erasmus, Gesprekken. Ingeleid, vertaald en toegelicht (Querido, 2001).
Readership
Historians of the early modern period from all disciplines, in particular cultural, literary and art history, and all those interested in classical antiquity and its reception.
Reviews
'...a new series providing a good appreciation of the relative weight of Plutarch in the classical tradition of the early modern period.'
Joseph Geiger, Scripta Classica Israelica, 2002.
Joseph Geiger, Scripta Classica Israelica, 2002.
Table of contents
Preface
1. The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period, Anton Boschloo
2. Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the “Sala di Costantino” in the Vatican Palace, Jan L. de Jong
3. Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae: Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis, Mark Morford
4. Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius’s Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582), Karl Enenkel
5. Justus Lipsius’s De militia Romana: Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare, Jeanine De Landtsheer
6. “The Grandeur that was Rome”: Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius’s Admiranda, Marc Laureys
7. Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius, Maria Berbara
8. Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography, Paul J. Smith
9. Plutarch’s Lives and Coriolanus: Shakespeare’s View of Roman History, Bart Westerweel
10. The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710), Olga van Marion
11. The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller’s Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus’s Legislation, Sjaak Onderdelinden
12. Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar, Wilfried Stroh
13. The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531–1584), Arnoud Visser
14. The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck, Francesca Terrenato
15. Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret’s Julius Caesar, Jan Bloemendal
16. Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier’s La mort de César (1709), Alicia Montoya
17. The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed — Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina, Bettina Noak
List of Illustrations
Index
List of Contributors
1. The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period, Anton Boschloo
2. Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the “Sala di Costantino” in the Vatican Palace, Jan L. de Jong
3. Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae: Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis, Mark Morford
4. Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius’s Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582), Karl Enenkel
5. Justus Lipsius’s De militia Romana: Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare, Jeanine De Landtsheer
6. “The Grandeur that was Rome”: Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius’s Admiranda, Marc Laureys
7. Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius, Maria Berbara
8. Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography, Paul J. Smith
9. Plutarch’s Lives and Coriolanus: Shakespeare’s View of Roman History, Bart Westerweel
10. The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710), Olga van Marion
11. The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller’s Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus’s Legislation, Sjaak Onderdelinden
12. Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar, Wilfried Stroh
13. The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531–1584), Arnoud Visser
14. The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck, Francesca Terrenato
15. Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret’s Julius Caesar, Jan Bloemendal
16. Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier’s La mort de César (1709), Alicia Montoya
17. The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed — Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina, Bettina Noak
List of Illustrations
Index
List of Contributors
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