Recreating Ancient History

Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period

Karl A. E.. Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Jeanine De Landtsheer (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

472 Seiten

2003
Brill Academic Publishers,US (Verlag)
978-0-391-04129-5 (ISBN)

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This work offers examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes.

The papers in this volume offer a wide range of examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present.

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Karl Enenkel teaches Latin and Neo-Latin Literature in the Department of Classics, Leiden University. Jan L. de Jong is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at Groningen University, The Netherlands. Jeanine De Landtsheer is a Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2003
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	656 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	0-391-04129-0 / 0391041290
ISBN-13	978-0-391-04129-5 / 9780391041295
Zustand	Neuware