Between Scylla and Charybdis. Learned Letter Writers Navigating the Reefs of Religious and Political Controversy in Early Modern Europe

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: HUMANIST LETTER WRITING BEFORE 1550: VARIOUS APPROACHES Der neulateinische Bief als Quelle politisch-religioser Uberzeugungen: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Diskursivitat einer ambivalenten Gattung, Karl Enenkel Spiritual Dialogues and Politics in the Correspondance between Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briconnet (1521-1524), Reinier Leushuis Erasmus and the Philological Study of the New Testament, Chris L. Heesakkers Juan Luis Vives and the Spectre of the Inquisition, Charles Fantazzi Correspondance et strategie d'auteur: les lettres de Francois Rabelais, Paul J. Smith PART II: HUMANIST LETTERS AS A MIRROR OF THE REFORMATION Translation in the Service of Politics and Religion: A Family Tradition for Thomas More, Margaret Roper, and Mary Clarke Basset, Brenda M. Hosington The Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Philip Melanchthon's Letters of Recommendation, Milton Kooistra Georgius Cassander: Searching for Religious Peace in his Correspondence (1557-1565), Rob van de Schoor Carolus Utenhovius: a Tale of Two Cities, Philip Ford Andreas Dudith (1533-1589): Conflicts and Strategies of a Religious Individualist in Confessionalising Europe, Gabor Almasi Livres, erudition et irenisme a l'epoque des Guerres de religion: Autour de la Satyre Menippee, Ingrid De Smet Topical Matters in Dedicatory Letters of Latin Plays in the Early Modern Netherlands, Jan Bloemendal PART III: LEARNED LETTER WRITERS IN THE NETHERLANDS AS WITNESSES OF THE DUTCH REVOLT Between Philip II and William of Orange: the correspondence of Christopher Plantin (c. 1520-1589), Dirk Imhof New Documents on Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598) and Politics in the Netherlands, Antonio Davila Perez Humanist Friendship, Politics and Religion in Marnix's Correspondence just before the Fall of Antwerp: Inconstancy or Constancy?, Rudolf De Smet Living to the Letter: The Correspondence of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, Johan Koppenol Pius Lipsius or Lipsius Proteus? , Jeanine De Landtsheer PART IV: VICISSITUDES OF LATE HUMANISM Shifting Orthodoxy in the Republic of Letters: Caspar Schoppius mirroring Justus Lipsius, Jan Papy The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and their Catholic Correspondents, Dirk van Miert Between Scylla and Charybdis? Evidence on the Conversion of Christoph Besold from his Letters and his Legal and Political Thought, Robert von Friedeburg Franciscus Junius, F.F.: la question religieuse, Colette Nativel Breasting the Waves: Grotius' Letters on Church and State, Harm-Jan van Dam At the Heart of the Twelve Years' Truce Controversies: Conrad Vorstius, Gerard Vossius and Hugo Grotius, Cor S.M. Rademaker A Flaming Row in the Republic of Letters: Claude Saumaise on Hugo Grotius's Crusade for Church Unity, Henk Nellen Public Poses Revealed: From Critical Edition to Revision, Jim Dobreff Index Nominum

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