Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550-1700

An exploration of the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), which originated in the sixteenth century, when it became communis opinio among intellectuals that an extended tour abroad was an indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education.

About the author

Karl A.E. 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.
Jan L. de Jong, Ph. D (1987), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, is Senior Lecturer, Art History of the Early Modern Period. He has published extensively on Italian Renaissance Art, including The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (University Park, PA (Penn State University Press), 2013).

Product details

• Assisted by: Jan L de Jong (Editor), Jan L. de Jong (Editor), Karl A E Enenkel (Editor), Karl A. E. Enenkel (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2019
• EAN: 9789004401051
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40105-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic