Prescribing Ovid The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the 'Latin Enlightenment'.
| Publisher Name | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
|---|---|
| Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
| Format | Audio |
| Bisac Subject Major | LIT |
| Language | NG |
| Isbn 10 | 1472587502 |
| Isbn 13 | 9781472587503 |
| Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
| Dimensions | 00.92" H x 10.06" L x 14.00" W |
| Page Count | 280 |
Yasmin Haskell has been Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia since 2003. She is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She is the author of Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry, winner of the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs Competition.
