Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears - Constructions of a Glorious Past in the Early Modern Netherlands and in Europe

This study is dedicated to the constructions of "national", regional/ local antiquities in early modern Europe, 1500-1700, especially the Northern Low Countries.

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.
Konrad A. Ottenheym is Professor of Architectural History at Utrecht University. His publications are focused on Dutch architecture and architectural theory of the early modern period with a special attention to its relationships with other European regions.

Product details

• Authors: Karl A E Enenkel, Karl A. E. Enenkel, Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2019
• EAN: 9789004361393
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36139-3
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 885 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity