Karl A.E. Enenkel

The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture

Sietske Fransen

Niall Hodson

Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.

Translating Early Modern Science

Walter Melion

Wietse de Boer

This volume investigates how Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773, in rhetorical and emblematic treatises, theoretical debates, and embedded in various instances where Jesuit authors and artists implicitely explored the status and functions of images.

Jesuit Image Theory

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700

Traninger Anita

Discourses of Anger offers an interdisciplinary account of how different discourses generated their own version, assessment, and semantics of anger in the early modern period. It includes contributions on philosophy and theology, poetry, medicine, law, political theory, and art.

Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period

Jan L. de Jong

This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.

Pictorial and Literary Transformations in Various Media, 1400–1800

Re-inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Paul J. Smith

This interdisciplinary volume aims to address the multiple connections between emblematics and the natural world in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious.

Emblems and the Natural World

Jan de Jong

An exploration of the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), which originated in the sixteenth century, when it became communis opinio among intellectuals that an extended tour abroad was an indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education.

Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550-1700

Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym

This study is dedicated to the constructions of “national”, regional/ local antiquities in early modern Europe, 1500-1700, especially the Northern Low Countries.

Constructions of a Glorious Past in the Early Modern Netherlands and in Europe

Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears

This study draws a new picture of the invention of the emblem book, and discusses the textual and pictorial means that were developed in order to transmit knowledge, from Alciato to Vaenius, with special emphasis on the emblem commentary and natural history.

Karl A.E. Enenkel

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