
Prescribing Ovid
The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
Yasmin Haskell(Author)
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 28. March 2013
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-7156-3723-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Duckworth Overlook
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7156-3723-4 (9780715637234)
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Person
Yasmin Haskell
Content
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos I. Finding his Feet: Six or Five?
II. Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters III. Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy IV. Writing Home: Lessons from Italy V. Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History VI. Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and Short
Conclusion: Notes from the Margins
Appendix: Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens Bibliography Index