Between Scylla and Charybdis - Learned Letter Writers Navigating the Reefs of Religious and Political Controversy in Early Modern Europe

Scylla and Charybdis offers a collection of studies on epistolary and scholarly responses to religious and political controversy in Early Modern Europe. Careful examination of key intellectual letter-writers yields new biographical information as well as a more balanced judgement on the ways they responded to the challenges of their time.

About the author

Jeanine De Landtsheer, Ph.D. (1993) in Classical Philology, K.U.Leuven, is Research Fellow at K.U.Leuven. She has published five volumes in the series Iusti Lipsi Epistolae (Brussels, 1991-2006) and is now focusing on a biographical study of Lipsius and his works.

Henk Nellen, Ph.D. (1980) in History, Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Research Fellow at the Huygens Instituut, The Hague, and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He is co-editor of the final five volumes of Hugo Grotius' correspondence (The Hague, 1990-2001) which consequently led to a biography on Grotius (Amsterdam, 2007).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2010
• EAN: 9789004185739
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18573-9
• No. of pages: 568
• Weight: 1126 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)