Transformations of the Classics Via Early Modern Commentaries

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.

About the author

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden (Netherlands). He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern organisation of knowledge, literary genres 1300-1600, and emblem studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Karl A E Enenkel (Editor), Karl A. E. Enenkel (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2013
• EAN: 9789004260771
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26077-1
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)