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Title Neo-Latin commentaries and the management of knowledge in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700) / edited by Karel Enenkel & Henk Nellen.

Publication Info. Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 523 pages) : 41 illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ; 33
Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ; 33.
Note 20 English, 2 German contributions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Between 1400 and 1700 the political, religious, intellectual, and even geographic landscape was profoundly changed by the Reformation, Humanism, the rise of empirical science, the invention of printing technology, and the discovery of the New World. The late medieval and early modern intellectuals felt an urgent need to respond to the changes they were involved in, and to come to a revision and re-authorisation of knowledge. They embarked on a scholarly programme of a quality and extent hitherto unknown in the Western world: the whole body of the literature of antiquity, including the Bible, was to be re-edited critically and furnished with commentaries. The Neo-Latin commentary became the most important genre of humanist scholarship. This book sheds light on the various ways in which classical authors and the Bible were commented on, the types of commentary, the commenting strategies that were used to approach different readerships, the various kinds of knowledge that were collected, created, and transmitted.
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Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Added Author Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.
Nellen, Henk J. M., 1949- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Neo-Latin commentaries and the management of knowledge in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700) 9789058679369 (OCoLC)855995510
ISBN 9789461661272 (electronic book)
9461661274 (electronic book)
9789058679369
9058679365