Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23303-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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.

Zielgruppe

All those with an interest in the classical tradition, early modern literature and politics, the history of books and reading, and the history of education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox Jensen, Freyja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of tables

Abbreviations, and a note on the text

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Reading the Roman Republic

1. “The Attaining of Humane Learning”: Education and Roman History
2. Editions and Translations: The Publishing and Circulation of Roman History

3. Evidence of Reading: Catalogues and Inventories

4. Evidence of Reading: Commonplace Books, Notebooks and Marginalia

Part II. Re-imagining Rome
5. From Pharsalus to Philippi: Stories of Pompey and Caesar

6. ‘You Are His Heirs’: Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the Ides

7. Caesar Augustus: “How Happily He Governed”?

Conclusion. “[A]nother Rome in the West?”

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Cox Jensen, Freyja
Freyja Cox Jensen obtained her DPhil in History in 2009 from Christ Church, Oxford, where she now holds the post of Junior Research Fellow.