Peter Edwards

Elspeth Graham

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In spite of the importance of horses to Western society until comparatively recent times, scholars have paid very little attention to them. This volume helps to redress the balance, emphasizing their iconic appeal as well as their utilitarian functions.

The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World

The Horse as Cultural Icon

Jan de Jong

Jeanine de Landtsheer

The papers in this volume offer a wide range of examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period

Recreating Ancient History

Walter Melion

The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. The volume aims at examining its forms, functions and strategies, from a variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, art history, history of religion, philosophy, and theology.

Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture

Meditatio – Refashioning the Self

Celeste Brusati

This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.

Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700

The Authority of the Word

Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, health care, geographical discoveries, and even segments of life seemingly far removed from scholarship, such as warfare and engineering.

Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models or completely ignored. It offers case studies on the archaic period, classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Augustan age and the late Roman empire.

Political Propaganda in Antiquity: A Collection of Case Studies

The Manipulative Mode

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen

The early modern period is a particularly fascinating chapter in the history of pain. This volume investigates early modern constructions of physical pain from a variety of disciplines, including religious, legal and medical history, literary criticism, philosophy, and art history.

The Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture

Maria Berbara

This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts.

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