Prescribing Ovid - The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens (Hardcover, New)

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, as 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'.

General

Imprint:	Gerald Duckworth
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	Yasmin Haskell
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7156-3723-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-7156-3723-1
Barcode:	9780715637234

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