The kaleidoscopic scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) : northern humanism at the dawn of the Dutch golden age

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The kaleidoscopic scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) : northern humanism at the dawn of the Dutch golden age

edited by Dirk van Miert

(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 199)

Brill, 2011

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Articles from a symposium honoring the 500th birthday of Hadrianus Junius, held July 1, 2011 in Hoorn, Netherlands

Includes index

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Description

Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) is generally regarded as the greatest humanist in the Northern Netherlands between the death of Erasmus in 1536 and the foundation of Leiden University in 1575. For both literary authors and professional philologists of the Golden Age, Junius remained the only significant point of reference on Dutch soil in the second and third quarters of the sixteenth century. As physician, lexicographer, historiographer, emblematist, poet, mycologist, chronologer and philologist, he was a prolific editor (and translator) of Latin and Greek texts. Yet we still know little about the kind of scholarship this stuttering polymath pursued, and about the connections between his numerous works. The chapters in this book analyse Junius' most important works, some of which have never been studied before. All chapters contextualise his works in light of the tradition of humanism so familiar to Junius.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: Hadrianus Junius and Northern Dutch Humanism, Dirk van Miert From Erasmus to Leiden: Hadrianus Junius and his Significance for the Development of Humanism in Holland in the Sixteenth Century, Chris Heesakkers Hadrianus Junius' Batavia and the Formation of a Historiographical Canon in Holland, Coen Maas Context, Conception and Content of Hadrianus Junius' Batavia, Nico de Glas Hadrianus Junius' Animadversa and his Methods of Scholarship, Dirk van Miert Junius' two editions of Martial's Epigrammata, Chris Heesakkers A Man of Eight Hearts: Hadrianus Junius and Sixteenth-Century Plurilinguism, Toon Van Hal Devices, Proverbs, Emblems: Hadrianus Junius' Emblemata in the Light of Erasmus' Adagia, Ari Wesseling Emblematic Authorization - Lusus Emblematum: the Function of Hadrianus Junius's Emblem Commentary and Early Commentaries on Alciato's Emblematum libellus, Karl Enenkel Epilogue: The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius, Dirk van Miert About the Contributors Index of Names

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