Recreating Ancient History

This volume contains sixteen papers from various disciplines dealing with the question how scholars and artists in the early modern period studied and recreated ancient history, as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present.This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Karl Enenkel teaches Latin and Neo-Latin literature in the Department of Classics, Leiden University. He is the author of Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. Kritische Textausgabe und ideengeschichtlicher Kommentar (1990), of Kulturoptimismus und Kulturpessimismus in der Renaissance (1995), and of numerous articles on Italian and Dutch humanism. He is the editor of Lipsius in Leiden (1997) and Modelling the Individual Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance.Jan L. de Jong, Ph.D. (1987) in Art History, Leiden University, is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles on sixteenth century Italian history painting.Jeanine De Landtsheer, Ph.D. in Classical Languages (1993), Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven, focuses on Neolatin studies and History of the Humanism, more particularly Justus Lipsius, his works and correspondence. Publications include Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, V-VII (1592-1594); VIII (1595)(Brepols), the first edition of Justus Lipsius’s Diva Virgo Lovaniensis (Leuven Univ. Press, 2001) and Desiderius Erasmus, Gesprekken. Ingeleid, vertaald en toegelicht (Querido, 2001).