Loyola's Bees

Loyola's Bees
Author: Yasmin Haskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2003-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780197262849

This study of the Latin didactic poetry produced by the Jesuits in the early modern period reveals the literary qualities of these works, their compositional methods, and traditions.

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
Author: Joseph Farrell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118785126

A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship

Prescribing Ovid

Prescribing Ovid
Author: Yasmin Haskell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1780934688

Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the 'Latin Enlightenment'.

In the Land of Marvels

In the Land of Marvels
Author: Paola Bertucci
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 142144710X

"This book explores the early advent of electricity as a pivotal phenomenon in the cultivation of popular cultural scientific interest"--

Early Modern Emotions

Early Modern Emotions
Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315441349

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in early modern Europe, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly. The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of emotions. The first explains how key terms and concepts in the study of emotions relate to early modern Europe, while the second focuses on the unique ways in which emotions were conceptualized at the time. The third section introduces a range of sources and methodologies that are used to analyse early modern emotions. The final section includes a wide-ranging selection of thematic topics covering war, religion, family, politics, art, music, literature and the non-human world to show how analysis of emotions may offer new perspectives on the early modern period more broadly. Each section offers bite-sized, accessible commentaries providing students new to the history of emotions with the tools to begin their own investigations. Each entry is supported by annotated further reading recommendations pointing students to the latest research in that area and at the end of the book is a general bibliography, which provides a comprehensive list of current scholarship. This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study emotions in early modern Europe.

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis
Author: ALEJANDRO COROLEU
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1275
Release: 2012
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9004226478

Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2009, Uppsala in Sweden was the venue of the fourteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Uppsala conference have been collected in this volume under the motto Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere Reception and Innovation. Ninety-nine individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics
Author: Nicholas Freer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350070521

Virgil's Georgics, the most neglected of the poet's three major works, is brought to life and infused with fresh meanings in this dynamic collection of new readings. The Georgics is shown to be a rich field of inherited and varied literary forms, actively inviting a wide range of interpretations as well as deep reflection on its place within the tradition of didactic poetry. The essays contained in this volume – contributed by scholars from Australia, Europe and North America – offer new approaches and interpretive methods that greatly enhance our understanding of Virgil's poem. In the process, they unearth an array of literary and philosophical sources which exerted a rich influence on the Georgics but whose impact has hitherto been underestimated in scholarship. A second goal of the volume is to examine how the Georgics – with its profound meditations on humankind, nature, and the socio-political world of its creation – has been (re)interpreted and appropriated by readers and critics from antiquity to the modern era. The volume opens up a number of exciting new research avenues for the study of the reception of the Georgics by highlighting the myriad ways in which the poem has been understood by ancient readers, early modern poets, explorers of the 'New World', and female translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Jesuits

The Jesuits
Author: Markus Friedrich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 872
Release: 2022-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691180121

"Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus ("The Jesuits") has been intimately involved in the unfolding of the modern world. The young Jesuit order played a crucial role in the Counter Reformation, especially in Poland, southern Germany, and several other parts of Europe. The Jesuits were also participants in the establishment and spread of European empires, engaging in missionary activity in east and south Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, and becoming central to the spreading of Christianity in the New World. At the same time, Jesuits often tangled with the Roman curia and the Pope, leading to the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773. After the subsequent restoration of the order in 1814, the Jesuits continued to be leaders in Catholic education and theology. In 2013 Jorge Bergoglio became the first Jesuit Pope, taking the name Pope Francis I. In this book, Markus Friedrich presents the first comprehensive account of the Jesuits from a non-Catholic perspective. Drawing on his expertise as a historian of the early modern world, Friedrich situates the Jesuit order within the wider perspective of European history. In particular, he places the Jesuits in the context of social, cultural, and imperial history, showing that the Jesuits were not monolithic but rather were very sensitive to local context and that the order's core texts, especially Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises, were templates to engage with, rather than instructions manuals to be followed slavishly"--

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Author: Alexandra Bamji
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317041615

'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures. Moreover, it challenges the conventional chronological parameters of the Counter-Reformation and introduces the reader to the latest research on global Catholicism. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history.

Oppian's Halieutica

Oppian's Halieutica
Author: Emily Kneebone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108840833

Reveals the sophistication of a once-popular Greek didactic epic on the sea and its fish, addressed to the Roman emperor.