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After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, and a creator God. Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance readers, such as Machiavelli, Pomponio Leto, and Montaigne, actually ingested and disseminated Lucretius, and the ways in which this process of reading transformed modern thought. She uncovers humanist methods for reconciling Christian and pagan philosophy, and shows how ideas of emergent order and natural selection, so critical to our current thinking, became embedded in Europe's intellectual landscape before the seventeenth century. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates, but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met the ideas that would soon transform the world. Renaissance readers-poets and philologists rather than scientists-were moved by their love of classical literature to rescue Lucretius and his atomism, thereby injecting his theories back into scientific discourse. Palmer employs a new quantitative method for analyzing marginalia in manuscripts and printed books, exposing how changes in scholarly reading practices over the course of the sixteenth century gradually expanded Europe's receptivity to radical science, setting the stage for the scientific revolution.

History of philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Lucretius Carus, Titus --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Lucrèce, --- Lucretius Carus, Titus. --- Lucrèce (0097?-0055 av. J.-C.). --- Lucrèce --- Appréciation --- Influence. --- Influence --- Lucrèce, 98-55 av JC

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In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly descriptive Rape of Lucrece confirmed his fame as 'Sweet Master Shakespeare', Elizabethan England's most brilliant non-dramatic poet. Shorter poems in this volume testify further to Shakespeare's versatility and to his poetic fame. Some, like the much-debated 'Phoenix and Turtle', pose problems of meaning; others raise questions about authorship and authenticity. Detailed annotation and a full Introduction seek to resolve such difficulties while also locating Shakespeare's poems in their literary context, which includes his own career as a playwright.

English literature --- Venus (Roman deity) --- Adonis (Greek deity) --- Love poetry, English --- Sonnets, English --- Poetry --- Lucretia --- Venus (Roman deity) - Poetry --- Adonis (Greek deity) - Poetry --- Lucretia - Poetry --- Shakespeare, william (1564-1616). the rape of lucrece --- Shakespeare, william (1564-1616). venus and adonis

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Wat is de favoriete fruityochurt van karel Verleyen, wat is Guy Didelez' favoriete instantsoep, wat voor pantoffels draagt Dirk Bracke?In dit vriendenboekje geven 20 Abimo-auteurs al hun geheimen prijs.

Baele, Walter --- Heylen, Maria --- Verleyen, Karel --- Briels, Jo --- Bernauw, Patrick --- Ecluse, l', Lucrèce --- Bracke, Dirk --- Minne, Brigitte --- Defauw, Marina --- Melis, An --- Didelez, Guy --- Pollet, Frank --- Baetens, Rob --- Braeckeleer, de, Nico --- Campenhout, Van, Herman --- Vanhoeck, Roger --- Embrechts, Luc --- Meyer, de, Norbert --- Cauteren, Van, Katharina --- Vermeulen, Moniek --- Jeugdliteratuur. --- Schrijvers --- Jeugdboekactiviteiten --- Jeugdliteratuur --- Jeugdliteratuur ; verhalend

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929 <493> --- 839.3 --- Jeugdliteratuur ; biografieënverzamelingen --- Over Jeugdliteratuur --- 839.3 Nederlandse literatuur --- Nederlandse literatuur --- 839.3 Dutch literature. Literature in Dutch --- Dutch literature. Literature in Dutch --- 929 <493> Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--België --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--België --- Heylen, Maria --- Verleyen, Karel --- Camp, Van, Gaston --- Briels, Jo --- Bernauw, Patrick --- Ecluse, l', Lucrèce --- Kockere, De, Geert --- Bracke, Dirk --- Minne, Brigitte --- Didelez, Guy --- Pollet, Frank --- Baetens, Rob --- Landtsheer, de, Patricia --- Campenhout, Van, Herman --- Vanhoeck, Roger --- Embrechts, Luc --- Meyer, de, Norbert --- Boullart, Gert --- Simoen, Luc --- Cauteren, Van, Katharina

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The crisis Rome experienced in the last decades of the Republic was intellectual as well as political, social and military. This crisis was marked by conflicts over values and a growing dichotomy between words and things, as a result of which the key words of the Roman tradition lost their anchor in the inherited, commonly-held percepetion of reality known as the mos maiorum . The crisis was therefore also one of the Latin language itself. The monograph explores this thesis in discussions of the background and character of Roman intellectual history, the nature of the mos maiorum , the relationship of the Late Republic to the Mediterranean world, the roles of Julius Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, and Lucretius in the crisis, and its Augustan and later consequences. The major portion of the discussion is devoted to Lucretius, because the De Rerum Natura is the clearest example of the extent and nature of the crisis, from which it took its origin and gained its form and purpose. A principal goal of the essay is to relate Lucretius to the structure of Roman literary and intellectual history. It finds the explanation for his work in the nature of that history and the characteristic Roman modes and categories of thought rather than in the general history fo Greek philosophy. It also offers a new explanation of the relationshiop of the authors of the Late Republic to each other. In so doing, it indicates the foundation for a new history of Roman literature and a new conception of the reality and importance of the intellectual history of Rome.

Classical Latin literature --- History of civilization --- Lucretius Carus, Titus --- Rome --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Political science --- Social values --- Philosophie ancienne --- Science politique --- Valeurs sociales --- Lucrèce, --- Didactic poetry, Latin --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- -Latin didactic poetry --- Latin poetry --- Lukrecjusz Karus, Tytus --- Lukret︠s︡iĭ Kar, Tit --- Lucrezio, Tito --- Lucrèce --- Lucrez --- Lucrecio Caro, T. --- Caro, T. Lucrecio --- Carus, Titus Lucretius --- Lucretius --- Lucrezio Caro, Tito --- Lucrecio --- Lucreti Cari, T. --- Lucreci --- לוקרציוס קרוס, טיטוס --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- Lucretius Carus, Titus. --- -History and criticism --- Lucrèce --- Lukrez --- History --- Latin literature --- Republic, 265-30 B.C. --- Civilization --- Moral conditions --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Didactic poetry, Latin. --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Latin didactic poetry --- De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) --- T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Lucretius Carus, Titus) --- Titi Lucretii Cari poetae ac philosophi vetustiss. De rerum natura libri sex (Lucretius Carus, Titus) --- Titi Lucretij Cari poetae ac philosophi uetustiss. De rerum natura libri sex (Lucretius Carus, Titus) --- Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Lucretius Carus, Titus) --- Rome (Empire) --- Roman Republic --- Italy --- Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Lucretius Carus, Titus - De rerum natura --- Lucrèce, 98-55 av JC --- Rome - Intellectual life