Recreating Ancient History

by Enenkel, K. A. E.; De Jong, Jan L.; De Landtsheer, Jeanine; Montoya, Alicia

• ISBN13: 9780391041295
• ISBN10: 0391041290
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period	1	(26)
Anton Boschloo
Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the ``Sala di Costantino'' in the Vatican Palace	27	(30)
Jan L. De Jong
Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae: Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis	57	(18)
Mark Morford
Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius's Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582)	75	(26)
Karl Enenkel
Justus Lipsius's De militia Romana: Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare	101	(22)
Jeanine De Landtsheer
``The Grandeur that was Rome'': Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius's Admiranda	123	(24)
Marc Laureys
Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius	147	(20)
Maria Berbara
Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography	167	(20)
Paul J. Smith
Plutarch's Lives and Coriolanus: Shakespeare's View of Roman History	187	(26)
Bart Westerweel
The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710)	213	(22)
Olga Van Marion
The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller's Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus's Legislation	235	(18)
Sjaak Onderdelinden
Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar	253	(16)
Wilfried Stroh
The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531--1584)	269	(18)
Arnoud Visser
The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck	287	(16)
Francesca Terrenato
Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret's Julius Caesar	303	(16)
Jan Bloemendal
Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier's La mort de Cesar (1709)	319	(20)
Alicia Montoya
The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed --- Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina	339	(18)
Bettina Noak
List of Illustrations	357	(6)
Index	363	(10)
List of Contributors	373