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Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

Haskell, Yasmin

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Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1472587502
ISBN13: 9781472587503
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 25 2014
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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, 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'.

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