The classical heritage in France / / edited by Gerald Sandy.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 109
• TeilnehmendeR: Sandy, Gerald N.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 109.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 588 pages) :; illustrations
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Hellenizing Geography: Travellers in Classical Lands 1550-1800 /; France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts /; Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France /; Guillaume Budé: Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Study /; Erasmus and Paris /; Translations from Latin into French in the Renaissance /; François Rabelais /; Michel de Montaigne: The Essais and a Tacitean Discourse /; Plutarch's Lives /; Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel: The Invention of the French Novel /; Under the Shadow of Socrates /; Legal Science in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries /; \'On the Sublime\' /; Classical Myth and Its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France /; The Epic in Sixteenth-Century France /; The Greek Anacreontics and Sixteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry /; Fables: Aesop and Babrius /; Drama /; The Classical Heritage in French Architecture /; Sixteenth-Century Book Illustration: The Classical Heritage /; Bibliography /; Index of Names /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-567) and index.
• ISBN: 1280464488; 9786610464487; 1417536527; 9047400631
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gerald Sandy.

This book, written by eighteen specialists, deals with the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is intended for those interested in classical influences on French belles-lettres and visual arts. Readers will benefit from the comprehensive surveys provided by specialists on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, Jacques Amyot's contribution to the reinvention of the novel in the West and the influence of ancient law in France. Major literary genres and themes, philosophy, major writers, early French humanists and Hellenists and the visual arts all receive detailed, up-to-date treatment. Contributors include: Olga Augustinos, Alain Billault, Jean Braybrook, Paola Cifarelli, Michèle Ducos, Sue Farquhar, Philip Ford, A. Trevor Hodge, George Huppert, Gillian Jondorf, John Parkin, Laurence Plazenet, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ofelia Salgado, Gerald Sandy, Alison Saunders, Douglas Thomson, and Valerie Worth-Stylianou.