Del 22 i serien Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England. The existing scholarship, preoccupied with republicanism in the decades before the Civil Wars, and focusing on the major drama of the period, has distorted our understanding of what ancient history really meant to early modern readers. This study articulates the connections between the history of education, reading and writing, and challenges the schools of historical thought which associate a particular classical source with one set of readings; here, for the first time, is an in-depth analysis of the role of Roman history in creating an English latinate culture which encompassed far wider debates and ideas than the purely political.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-08-03
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt561 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Antal sidor248
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004233034

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Table of ContentsList of tablesAbbreviations, and a note on the textAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Reading the Roman Republic1. “The Attaining of Humane Learning”: Education and Roman History2. Editions and Translations: The Publishing and Circulation of Roman History 3. Evidence of Reading: Catalogues and Inventories4. Evidence of Reading: Commonplace Books, Notebooks and MarginaliaPart II. Re-imagining Rome5. From Pharsalus to Philippi: Stories of Pompey and Caesar6. ‘You Are His Heirs’: Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the Ides7. Caesar Augustus: “How Happily He Governed”?Conclusion. “[A]nother Rome in the West?”Bibliography

“This book combines intellectual history, literary history, and the history of reading in innovative ways. […] both in its general approach and in the fresh evidence it offers, this book advances the subject a great deal.”David Norbrook, Merton Professor of Renaissance English literature at the University of Oxford. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 1080-1081.“Freyja Cox Jensen’s Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England is one of those rare scholarly achievements that succeed in combining scrupulous documentation, painstaking textual analysis, and fascinating critical insight.”Domenico Lovascio, University of Genoa. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2 (2014), pp. 437-438.“It will be clear that there is much material here that is likely to be of interest to classicists, literary scholars, and historians of the early modern period. Particularly valuable for the bibliographical world, I think, is the delivery of another model of book-historical research that embraces work on readership, ownership, and the use of books, and that integrates it with more traditional approaches to published output. We are seeing more of this, as we increasingly recognize the value of post-production evidence in understanding the social impact of books, and Jensen’s work is much to be welcomed as an addition to this ever-growing field.”David Pearson, Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London. In: The Library, 7.15.1 (March 2014), pp. 82-84.