Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Between Scylla and Charybdis : learned letter writers navigating the reefs of religious and political controversy in early modern Europe / edited by Jeannine de Landtsheer & Henk Nellen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 539 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; v. 192
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 192.
Note Papers from an international colloquium held in Leuven, Brussels, and The Hague, Dec. 14-16, 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Scylla and Charybdis" offers a collection of studies on epistolary and scholarly responses to religious and political controversy in Early Modern Europe. Careful examination of key intellectual letter-writers yields new biographical information as well as a more balanced judgement on the ways they responded to the challenges of their time.
Contents pt. 1. Humanist letter writing before 1550 : various approaches -- pt. 2. Humanist letters as a miror of the reformation -- pt. 3. Learned letter writers in the Netherlands as witnesses of the Dutch revolt -- pt. 4. Vicissitudes of late humanism.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject European letters -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
European letters.
Intellectuals -- Europe -- Correspondence -- Congresses.
Intellectuals.
Europe.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Scholars -- Europe -- Correspondence -- Congresses.
Scholars.
Written communication -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
Written communication.
History.
Europe -- Religion -- Congresses.
Religion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Landtsheer, J. de (Jeanine)
Nellen, Henk J. M., 1949-
Other Form: Print version: Between Scylla and Charybdis. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004185739 (DLC) 2010037128 (OCoLC)647901943
ISBN 9789004185739 (electronic book)
9004185739 (electronic book)
9789004186026 (electronic book)
9004186026 (electronic book)