The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries
The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries

Author: R. R. Bolgar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9780521098120

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Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.

The Classical Heritage in France
The Classical Heritage in France

Author: Gerald N. Sandy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 9789004119161

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A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.

Recreating Ancient History
Recreating Ancient History

Author: Karl A. E.. Enenkel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 9004496424

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The papers in this volume offer examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800
Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800

Author: Tania Sona Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9004442294

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Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 traces the development of British rhetorical culture through English translations of selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus, along with a glossary of English rhetorical vocabulary.

The Western Time of Ancient History
The Western Time of Ancient History

Author: Alexandra Lianeri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1139500848

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This book examines the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity. In doing so, it articulates a genealogical problematic of what history is and a more strictly focused reappraisal of Greek and Roman historical thought. Ancient ideas of history have played a key role in modern debates about history writing, from Kant through Hegel to Nietzsche and Heidegger, and from Friedrich Creuzer through George Grote and Theodor Mommsen to Momigliano and Moses Finley; yet scholarship has paid little attention to the theoretical implications of the reception of these ideas. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of relevant topics and approaches and boast distinguished authors from across Europe in the fields of classics, ancient and modern history and the theory of historiography.