Reading the Roman republic in early modern England / by Freyja Cox Jensen.

Reading the Roman republic in early modern England / by Freyja Cox Jensen.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

x, 248 p. ; 25 cm

Library of the written word ; v. 22
The Handpress world ; 16

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, preoccupied with republicanism in the decades before the Civil Wars, and focusing on the major drama of the period, has distorted our understanding of what ancient history really meant to early modern readers. This study articulates the connections between the history of education, reading and writing, ... read moreand challenges the schools of historical thought which associate a particular classical source with one set of readings; here, for the first time, is an in-depth analysis of the role of Roman history in creating an English latinate culture which encompassed far wider debates and ideas than the purely political.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-243) and index.

Reading the Roman Republic.
"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
Re-imagining Rome.
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?".

Library of the written word ; v. 22.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 16.

Netherlands.

DA320 .C69 2012