The classical heritage in France / edited by Gerald Sandy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandy, Gerald N.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 109.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Civilization--Greek influences.

France.

France--Civilization--Roman influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 588 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, written by eighteen specialists, deals with the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is intended for those interested in classical influences on French belles-lettres and visual arts. Readers will benefit from the comprehensive surveys provided by specialists on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, Jacques Amyot's contribution to the reinvention of the novel in the West and the influence of ancient law in France. Major literary genres and themes, philosophy, major writers, early French humanists and Hellenists and the visual arts all receive detailed, up-to-date treatment. Contributors include: Olga Augustinos, Alain Billault, Jean Braybrook, Paola Cifarelli, Michèle Ducos, Sue Farquhar, Philip Ford, A. Trevor Hodge, George Huppert, Gillian Jondorf, John Parkin, Laurence Plazenet, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ofelia Salgado, Gerald Sandy, Alison Saunders, Douglas Thomson, and Valerie Worth-Stylianou.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Gerald Sandy

Introduction / Gerald Sandy

Hellenizing Geography: Travellers in Classical Lands 1550-1800 / Olga Augustinos

France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts / Ofelia N. Salgado

Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France / Gerald Sandy

Guillaume Budé: Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Study / Gerald Sandy

Erasmus and Paris / Douglas F.S. Thomson

Translations from Latin into French in the Renaissance / Valerie Worth-Stylianou

François Rabelais / John Parkin

Michel de Montaigne: The Essais and a Tacitean Discourse / Sue W. Farquhar

Plutarch's Lives / Alain Billault

Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel: The Invention of the French Novel / Laurence Plazenet

Under the Shadow of Socrates / George Huppert

Legal Science in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Michèle Ducos

\'On the Sublime\' / Alain Billault

Classical Myth and Its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France / Philip Ford

The Epic in Sixteenth-Century France / Jean Braybrook

The Greek Anacreontics and Sixteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry / Patricia Rosenmeyer

Fables: Aesop and Babrius / Paola Cifarelli

Drama / Gillian Jondorf

The Classical Heritage in French Architecture / A. Trevor Hodge

Sixteenth-Century Book Illustration: The Classical Heritage / Alison Saunders

Bibliography / Gerald Sandy

Index of Names / Gerald Sandy

General Index / Gerald Sandy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-567) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46448-8

9786610464487

1-4175-3652-7

90-474-0063-1

OCLC:

171582990

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400639 DOI