New Intellectual Saints
The Reinvention of the Ancient Greek Philosophers as Aphoristic Writers and Itinerant Beggars in Seventeenth-Century Painting
Karl A.E. Enenkel(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 8. July 2026
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-90-04-75177-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the reinvention of the Greek philosophers by seventeenth-century painters who transformed them into saintly icons of the intellectual life. Fundamental is the novel conception of these philosophers as itinerant beggars and dedicated writers of aphorisms. Drawing heavily on Diogenes Laertius, Erasmus and other author-collectors of apothegms, the painters create living and above all speaking images of the philosophers which were meant to trigger reflection on the core issues of human existence. Above all, these painted philosophers are shown to be men of paper, who used it to read, write, and think, and who engaged bodily and spiritually with the paper codex.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-04-75177-4 (9789004751774)
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Person
Karl Enenkel is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Muenster. He has published seven monographs and some one hundred and fifty articles and edited some forty-five collective volumes. Recently, he published a critical commented edition of Erasmus' Apophthegmata, books V-VIII, in three volumes, which has appearedin the ASD series published by Brill.