Transformations of the classics via early modern commentaries / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enenkel, K. A. E.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 29.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 29

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation--Europe.

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Europe.

Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2014.

Summary:

Commentaries played an important role in the transmission of the classical heritage. Early modern intellectuals rarely read classical authors in a simple and "direct" form, but generally via intermediary paratexts, especially all kinds of commentaries. Commentaries presented the classical texts in certain ways that determined and guided the readers' perception and usages of the text being commented upon. Early modern commentaries shaped not only school and university education and professional scholarship, but also intellectual and cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, art, entertainment, health care, geographical discoveries etc., and even various professional activities and segments of life that were seemingly far removed from scholarship and learning, such as warfare and engineering. Book jacket.

Contents:

Poetry

Horace and Ramist Dialectics: Pierre Gaultier Chabot's (1516-1598?) Commentaries / Floris B. Verhaart Verhaart, Floris B. 15

Changing Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals / Trine Arlund Hass Hass, Trine Arlund 47

Horaz als Schulfibel und als elitärer Gründungstext des deutschen Humanismus. Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher (1498) / Christoph Pieper Pieper, Christoph 61

Petrus Nannius als Philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seines Kommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz / Marc Laureys Laureys, Marc 91

Scholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio's Forgotten Commentary on Juvenal / Gergo Gellérfi Gellérfi, Gergo 111

Commenting on Claudian's 'Political Poems', 1612/1650 / Valéry Berlincourt Berlincourt, Valéry 125

History and Moral Philosophy

Josse Bade's Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510): A School Commentary? / Marijke Crab Crab, Marijke 153

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) / Karl A.E. Enenkel Enenkel, Karl A.E. 167

Understanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus's Germania in Beatus Rhenanus's Commentariolus / Ronny Kaiser Kaiser, Ronny 261

Annotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus Lipsius / Jeanine De Landtsheer Landtsheer, Jeanine De 279

Natural History and Geography

The Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarship during the Botanical Renaissance / Susanna De Beer Beer, Susanna De 329

Elephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Study of Pliny's Zoology in the 15th-16th Centuries / Ekaterina Ilyushechkina Ilyushechkina, Ekaterina 363

Frühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antiken Geographie - Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspective in Vadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522) / Katharina Suter-Meyer Suter-Meyer, Katharina 389.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004260771

9004260773

OCLC:

855779270