Transformations of the classics via early modern commentaries

Product Description
Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, health care, geographical discoveries, and even segments of life seemingly far removed from scholarship, such as warfare and engineering.
Review
"The real tour de force in the volume is the ninety-four-page essay of its editor, Karl Enenkel, who also wrote the grant to the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research that supported five of the authors ... Enenkel argues (quite convincingly) that illustrations to early modern printed editions can also serve as a kind of commentary ... We owe thanks to him for the vision and hard work that has produced what is considerably more on the scholarly level than just another set of conference papers, and to Brill for producing a well-printed volume that is enriched with dozens of illustrations (over forty in Enenkel's article alone)."
Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University. In:
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1303-1305.

"enormously helpful ... beautifully presented, well-made ... an excellent collection of thoughtful and stimulating essays."
Jon Balserak, University of Bristol. In:
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 430-431.


About the Author
Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden (Netherlands). He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern organisation of knowledge, literary genres 1300-1600, and emblem studies.