The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575)

Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20914-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 199, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) is generally regarded as the greatest humanist in the Northern Netherlands between the death of Erasmus in 1536 and the foundation of Leiden University in 1575. For both literary authors and professional philologists of the Golden Age, Junius remained the only significant point of reference on Dutch soil in the second and third quarters of the sixteenth century. As physician, lexicographer, historiographer, emblematist, poet, mycologist, chronologer and philologist, he was a prolific editor (and translator) of Latin and Greek texts. Yet we still know little about the kind of scholarship this stuttering polymath pursued, and about the connections between his numerous works. The chapters in this book analyse Junius’ most important works, some of which have never been studied before. All chapters contextualise his works in light of the tradition of humanism so familiar to Junius.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the classical tradition, the history of humanist scholarship, early modern intellectual history, emblematics, historical linguistics, classical philology, and the sixteenth-century history of the Low Countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

van Miert, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Introduction: Hadrianus Junius and Northern Dutch Humanism, Dirk van Miert

From Erasmus to Leiden: Hadrianus Junius and his Significance for the Development of Humanism in Holland in the Sixteenth Century, Chris Heesakkers

Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia and the Formation of a Historiographical Canon in Holland, Coen Maas

Context, Conception and Content of Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia, Nico de Glas

Hadrianus Junius’ Animadversa and his Methods of Scholarship, Dirk van Miert

Junius’ two editions of Martial’s Epigrammata, Chris Heesakkers

A Man of Eight Hearts: Hadrianus Junius and Sixteenth-Century Plurilinguism, Toon Van Hal

Devices, Proverbs, Emblems: Hadrianus Junius’ Emblemata in the Light of Erasmus’ Adagia, Ari Wesseling†

Emblematic Authorization – Lusus Emblematum: the Function of Hadrianus Junius’s Emblem Commentary and Early Commentaries on Alciato’s Emblematum libellus, Karl Enenkel

Epilogue: The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius, Dirk van Miert

About the Contributors

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Dirk van Miert (PhD 2004) is a researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (The Hague) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He specialises in the intellectual history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Northern Europe. He is author of Humanism in an Age of Science. The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704 (2009) and of a short biography of Junius (2011). He is co-editor of the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (forthcoming) and managing editor of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources.