Jozef IJsewijn. Humanism in the Low Countries

Jozef IJsewijn. Humanism in the Low Countries
Author: Jozef Ijsewijn
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2015-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9462700451

Professor Jozef IJsewijn’s most relevant essays collected in one volume Jozef IJsewijn. Humanism in the Low Countries contains twenty-one essays written by the late Professor Jozef IJsewijn during the period 1966-1996. All essays were selected by his pupil Professor Gilbert Tournoy, who collaborated with him since the foundation of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae in 1966 until his untimely death in 1998. They are now published in one volume in homage to the most brilliant scholar in the field of Neo-Latin Studies of the twentieth century. A number of contributions focus on the life and/or work of a single humanist from the Netherlands, others have a more general nature and deal with the very beginning and the later blossoming of Neo-Latin literature in the Low Countries or with the relationship between humanism in the Low Countries and in other European countries. Hidden in a less-known journal or a Festschrift for a colleague, these studies are nowadays not always easy to find. This volume brings the most relevant essays of IJsewijn together and aims to contribute to the research and study of humanism and Neo-Latin literature in the Low Countries.

Ciceronianus

Ciceronianus
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1908
Genre: Latin language
ISBN:

Mythologiae

Mythologiae
Author: Natale Conti
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1979
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588-1648)

Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588-1648)
Author: Karen Skovgaard-Petersen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788772897035

Christian's long reign (1588-1648) saw Denmark reduced from a major to a second-rate power, and in response he sought to portray the country as a powerful, rich, and culturally refined monarchy with long and glorious traditions. Skovgaard-Petersen examines the Latin histories of Denmark by Johannes Pontanus (1571-1639) and Johannes Meursius (1579-1639) as part of that endeavor. The study is revised from her 1998 doctoral dissertation for the University of Bergen. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Latin Poetry

Latin Poetry
Author: Jacopo Sannazaro
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674034068

Sannazaro (1456-1530) is most famous for having written the first pastoral romance in European literature, the Arcadia (1504). But after this work, he devoted himself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on his beloved Virgil. In addition to his epic The Virgin Birth (1526), he also composed Piscatory Eclogues, an adaption of the eclogue form.