Between Scylla and Charybdis : Learned Letter Writers Navigating the Reefs of Religious and Political Controversy in Early Modern Europe.
Scylla and Charybdis offers a collection of studies on epistolary and scholarly responses to religious and political controversy in Early Modern Europe. Careful examination of key intellectual letter-writers yields new biographical information as well as a more balanced judgement on the ways they re...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Nellen, Henk J. M. Nellen, Henk J. M. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Leiden : BRILL, 2010. |
| Series: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Humanist Letter Writing before 1550: Various Approaches
- Der neulateinische Brief als Quelle politisch-religiöser Überzeugungen: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Diskursivität einer ambivalenten Gattung
- Spiritual Dialogues and Politics in the Correspondance between Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet (1521-1524)
- Erasmus and the Philological Study of the New Testament
- Vives and the Spectre of the Inquisition
- Correspondance et stratégie d'auteur: les lettres de François Rabelais
- Part II Humanist Letters as a Mirror of the Reformation
- Translation in the Service of Politics and Religion: A Family Tradition for Thomas More, Margaret Roper and Mary Clarke Basset
- The Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Philip Melanchthon's Letters of Recommendation
- Georgius Cassander: Searching for Religious Peace in his Correspondence (1557-1565)
- Carolus Utenhovius (1536-1600): A Tale of Two Cities
- Andreas Dudith (1533-1589): Conflicts and Strategies of a Religious Individualist in Confessionalising Europe
- Livres, érudition et irénisme à l'époque des Guerres de religion: Autour de la Satyre Ménippée
- Topical Matters in Dedicatory Letters of Latin Plays in the Early Modern Netherlands
- Part III Learned Letter Writers in the Netherlands as Witnesses of the Dutch Revolt
- Between Philip II and William of Orange: The Correspondence of Christopher Plantin (ca 1520-1589)
- New Documents on Benito Arias Montano (ca 1525-1598) and Politics in the Netherlands
- Humanist Friendship, Politics and Religion in Marnix's Correspondence just before the Fall of Antwerp: Inconstancy or Constancy?
- Living to the Letter: The Correspondence of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert
- Pius Lipsius or Lipsius Proteus?.
- PART IV VICISSITUDES OF LATE HUMANISM
- Shifting Orthodoxy in the Republic of Letters: Caspar Schoppius mirroring Justus Lipsius
- The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and their Catholic Correspondents
- Between Scylla and Charybdis? Evidence on the Conversion of Christoph Besold from his Letters and his Legal and Political Thought
- Franciscus Junius, F.F.: la question religieuse
- Breasting the Waves: Grotius's Letters on Church and State
- At the Heart of the Twelve Years' Truce Controversies: Conrad Vorstius, Gerard Vossius and Hugo Grotius
- A Flaming Row in the Republic of Letters: Claude Saumaise on Hugo Grotius's Crusade for Church Unity
- Public Poses Revealed: From Critical Edition to Revision. The Case of Hermannus Samsonius
- Index Nominum.