Recreating Ancient History


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Recreating Ancient History


Recreating Ancient History

Author: Karl A. E.. Enenkel

language: en

Publisher: BRILL

Release Date: 2021-11-08


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The papers in this volume offer 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. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination


Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination

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language: en

Publisher: BRILL

Release Date: 2017-10-02


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Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination, edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and general terms such as “classical republicanism” or the “neo-roman theory of free states”. The contributions to this volume propose a different approach and all focus on the specific ways in which ancient republics such as Rome, Athens, Sparta, and the Hebrew Republic served as models for early modern republican thought. The result is a novel interpretation of the impact of antiquity on early modern republicanism.

Early Modern Eyes


Early Modern Eyes

Author: Walter Simon Melion

language: en

Publisher: BRILL

Release Date: 2010


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Drawing on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume explores various discourses of vision in early modern Europe and the colonial Americas.