Format:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780715637234
Content:
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, as much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen, and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the 'Latin Enlightenment'
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; HalfTitle; Frontipiece; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos; Touring the Latin Enlightenment; A Dutch Ovid is born, and a father frets; 1 Finding His Feet: Six or Five?; The limits of chivalry: The poetic circle of Clara Feyoena van Sytzama; Ancients versus moderns . . . or young Turks versus old fogeys?; A portrait of the satirist as a young man; 2 Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters; A Dutchman in Paris; Whose letters, whose language?; Enlightened education: mens latina in corpore sano
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Medicine from below3 Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy; Cornelis Walraven Vonck and the Road to Rome; Wish you were here . . . letters from a lovely exile; 4 Writing Home: Lessons from Italy; Museless amusements; Reading a Latin landscape; Human monuments; Airs, waters, places: Case notes on the common people; Pagan presences and Gothic superstitions; Setting the record straight; Scarcely noted?; A Dutchman 'downunder'; 5 Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History; The purpose of history; Speaking pictures; Heroes and humanists; From Black Sea fish to North Sea birds
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What's in a (Latin) name? The neologisms of Linnaeus6 Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and Short; Enlightening the humanist doctor; Empedocles in Epigrams; Conclusion: Notes from the Margins; Seize and freeze, or dilate and dilute?; Letters to the dead . . . and to the nearly dead; What's so enlightened about the Latin Enlightenment?; Bringing Ovid in from the cold; Appendix Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9781780934693
Additional Edition:
Print version Prescribing Ovid : The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
Language:
English
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