This study, based on a fresh reading of the entire correspondence, the surviving orations, declamations and other relevant treatises, contains an innovative interpretation of the philosophical and theological thought of Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim (1486-1535). The first chapters contain a close study of his controversy with the scholastic theologians, which Agrippa carried on throughout his life, particularly with the theologians of Louvain University. Detailed analyses of Agrippa's declamations are included in the second part of the book. The chapter on the humanist...
This study, based on a fresh reading of the entire correspondence, the surviving orations, declamations and other relevant treatises, contains an inno...
Neo-Latin Philology explores the question whether the approaches developed in the so-called New or Material Philology can be applied to the study of Renaissance Latin literature. Two chapters in this volume focus on theoretical issues, the first presenting a critical assessment of the debate on New Philology in the 1990s, the second providing some guidelines for researchers of the materiality of sources.
The remaining seven chapters discuss various ways in which the material presentation in either manuscript or print played a part in the interpretation of a variety of texts,...
Neo-Latin Philology explores the question whether the approaches developed in the so-called New or Material Philology can be applied to th...
