Prescribing Ovid

The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Yasmin Haskell

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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, 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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Utgivningsdatum2014-09-25
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472587503

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Yasmin Haskell has been Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia since 2003. She is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She is the author of Loyola’s Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry, winner of the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs Competition.

List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos I. Finding his Feet: Six or Five?II. Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters III. Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy IV. Writing Home: Lessons from Italy V. Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History VI. Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and ShortConclusion: Notes from the MarginsAppendix: Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens Bibliography Index

Prescribing Ovid will be particularly useful for those interested in the position of Latin in the 18th-century and the Enlightenment. It is also a valuable case study about the ways in which the Republic of Letters was put to practical use during this period. Finally, Heerkens’s self-presentation as an 18th-century Ovid is a fascinating case for those working on self-fashioning both in literature in general and in the works of early modern (Neo-Latin) authors in particular.