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Early Modern letter-writing was often the only way to maintain regular and meaningful contact. Scholars, politicians, printers, and artists wrote to share private or professional news, to test new ideas, to support their friends, or pursue personal interests. Epistolary exchanges thus provide a private lens onto major political, religious, and scholarly events. Sixteenth century’s reform movements created a sense of disorder, if not outright clashes and civil war. Scholars could not shy away from these tensions. The private sphere of letter-writing allowed them to express, or allude to, the conflicts of interest which arose from their studies, social status, and religious beliefs. Scholarly correspondences thus constitute an unparalleled source on the interrelation between broad historical developments and the convictions of a particularly expressive group of individuals.
Price: $235.00
Pages: 540
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
19 November 2010
ISBN: 9789004185739
Format: Hardcover
"One of the precise contributions of this excellent book is to vividly and rigorously render the echoes of sixteenth and early-seventeenth century events in numerous learned letters. At the same time the authors provide some very enlightening analyses on the process of confessionalisation and its relationship to humanism."
Catherine Secretan, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, Volume 128-2 (2013), review 35
"This volume of essays provides a timely and valuable addition to scholarship on learned correspondence in the early modern period and is a very useful complement to the significant number of collections of letters now available online."
Chris Joby, De Zeventiende Eeuw 28 (2012) 1,109-110
"Between Scylla and Charybdis offers an impressively learned but lively, readable, and often moving depiction of how confessionalization impacted scholarly individuals, families, networks, and institutions as well as the relations of church and state in Early Modern Europe."
Judith Rice Henderson, The University of Saskatchewan
"The many case studies collected here render the volume interesting to students of humanist culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, England, and France.
Nicolette Mout. In: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 92, Nos. 2-3 (2012), pp. 401-403
Catherine Secretan, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, Volume 128-2 (2013), review 35
"This volume of essays provides a timely and valuable addition to scholarship on learned correspondence in the early modern period and is a very useful complement to the significant number of collections of letters now available online."
Chris Joby, De Zeventiende Eeuw 28 (2012) 1,109-110
"Between Scylla and Charybdis offers an impressively learned but lively, readable, and often moving depiction of how confessionalization impacted scholarly individuals, families, networks, and institutions as well as the relations of church and state in Early Modern Europe."
Judith Rice Henderson, The University of Saskatchewan
"The many case studies collected here render the volume interesting to students of humanist culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, England, and France.
Nicolette Mout. In: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 92, Nos. 2-3 (2012), pp. 401-403
Jeanine De Landtsheer, Ph.D. (1993) in Classical Philology, K.U.Leuven, is Research Fellow at K.U.Leuven. She has published five volumes in the series Iusti Lipsi Epistolae (Brussels, 1991-2006) and is now focusing on a biographical study of Lipsius and his works.
Henk Nellen, Ph.D. (1980) in History, Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Research Fellow at the Huygens Instituut, The Hague, and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He is co-editor of the final five volumes of Hugo Grotius' correspondence (The Hague, 1990-2001) which consequently led to a biography on Grotius (Amsterdam, 2007).
Henk Nellen, Ph.D. (1980) in History, Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Research Fellow at the Huygens Instituut, The Hague, and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He is co-editor of the final five volumes of Hugo Grotius' correspondence (The Hague, 1990-2001) which consequently led to a biography on Grotius (Amsterdam, 2007).