Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education

This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. It demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science.

About the author

KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

PAUL J. SMITH is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2014
• EAN: 9789004268234
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26823-4
• No. of pages: 546
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 957 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries