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Author International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. International Conference (15th : 2012 : Westfalische Wilhelmsuniversitat Munster)

Title Transformations of the classics via early modern commentaries / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 417 pages) : illustrations
Series Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 29
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 29.
Contents Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editor; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction -- The Transformation of the Classics. Practices, Forms, and Functions of Early Modern Commenting; Poetry; Horace and Ramist Dialectics:Pierre Gaultier Chabot's (1516-1598?) Commentaries; Changing Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals; Horaz als schulfibel und als elitärer gründungstext des deutschen Humanismus. Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher (1498); Petrus Nannius als philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seines Kommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz
Scholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio's Forgotten Commentary on JuvenalCommenting on Claudian's 'political poems', 1612/1650; History and Moral Philosophy; Josse Bade's Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510): A School Commentary?; Illustrations as Commentary and Readers' Guidance. The Transformation of Cicero's De Officiis into a German Emblem Book by Johann von Schwarzenberg, Heinrich Steiner, and Christian Egenolff (1517-1520; 1530/1531; 1550); Understanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus's Germania in Beatus Rhenanus's Commentariolus
Annotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus LipsiusNatural History and Geography; The Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarship during the Botanical Renaissance; Elephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Study of Pliny's Zoology in the 15th-16th Centuries; Frühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antiken Geographie -- Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspektive in Vadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522); Index Nominum
Summary Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, health care, geographical discoveries, and even segments of life seemingly far removed from scholarship, such as warfare and engineering
Notes "The idea for this volume originated in the 15th International Conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), Neo-Latin, Language of Religion and Politics, held at the Westfalische Wilhelmsuniversitat Munster in August of 2012"--Acknowledgments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Europe -- Congresses
Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Classical literature -- Appreciation
Europe
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Enenkel, K. A. E., editor, author
ISBN 9781306210102
1306210100
9789004260788
9004260781
9789004260771
9004260773