Reading the Roman republic in early modern England / / by Freyja Cox Jensen.
Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England. The existing scholarship, preoc...
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| Superior document: | Library of the written word ; v. 22 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the Written Word
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- “The Attaining of Humane Learning”: Education and Roman History
- Editions and Translations: The Publishing and Circulation of Roman History
- Evidence of Reading: Catalogues and Inventories
- Evidence of Reading: Commonplace Books, Notebooks and Marginalia
- From Pharsalus to Philippi: Stories of Pompey and Caesar
- “You are His Heirs”: Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the Ides
- Caesar Augustus: “How Happely he Governed”?
- Conclusion. “[A]nother Rome in the West?”
- Bibliography
- Index.