Arjo J. Vanderjagt

F. Akkerman

G.C. Huisman

These nineteen original studies deal with Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489), the Modern Devotion and its influence, subjects and personalities of early humanism and the Reformation in the northern Netherlands and Germany. Topics include, a.o. Regnerus Praedinius, Rodolphus Agricola, Hardenberg, Molanus and Ubbo Emmius.

Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) and Northern Humanism

Piet Steenbakkers

This collection of seventeen essays breaks new ground in dealing comprehensively with philological, historical and bibliographical aspects of Spinoza’s texts. It covers subjects such as the philosopher’s Latinity and style, and the transmission and editing of his works.

Studies in Words, Texts and Books

Spinoza to the Letter

Adrie van der Laan

This is the third and final volume of a set of studies on the development of humanism in the northern Netherlands and the adjoining parts of Germany between 1469, when, in the oldest letters preserved of Rudolph Agricola and Rudolph von Langen, first mention is made of a group of early humanist scholars at the Adwert monastery near Groningen, and 1625, when the humanist Ubbo Emmius died, who was the first rector of the university of Groningen. The earlier two volumes are "Rodolphus Agricola Phrisius (1444-1485)" (1988) and "Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) and Northern Humanism" (1993). This last volume has papers on Regnerus Praedinius (1510-1559), Alexander Hegius (ca.1433-1498), Alexander Candidus (+1555), Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489), the Bremen "Gymnasium Illustre" between 1560-1630, humanist commentaries on Boethius, scholasticism and humanism, humanism and philosophy, "Agricola Latinus," Ubbo Emmius's 'art of description', Agricola's dialectics at Louvain, Agricola on deliberative speech, humanism and reformation, Erasmus and geography, Agricola in Pavia, Dutch students at Italian universities (1425-1575), relations between Heidelberg and the Low Countries in the late 16th century, the Modern Devotion and humanism. Many of the papers were originally presented at a conference in 1996, but they have been extensively rewritten and edited, and a number of new pieces have been included. An updated bibliography in this volume makes the three volumes together an indispensable tool for scholars of philology, literature, history, philosophy and theology of the period. Contributors include: F. Akkerman, J.C. Bedaux, C.P.M. Burger, C.M.A. Caspers, T. Elsmann, M. Goris, M.J.F.M. Hoenen, P.Kooiman, H.A. Krop, Z.R.W.M. von Martels, L.W. Nauta, J. Papy, M. van der Poel, E. Rummel, R.J. Schoeck, A. Sottili, A. Tervoort, A.E. Walter, and A.G. Weiler.

F. Akkerman

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