Between Scylla and Charybdis: Learned Letter Writers Navigating the Reefs of Religious and Political Controversy in Early Modern Europe (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

Pt. 1. Humanist Letter Writing Before 1500 : Various Approaches -- Pt. 2. Humanist Letters As A Mirror Of The Reformation -- Pt. 3. Learned Letter Writers In The Netherlands As Witnesses Of The Dutch Revolt -- Vicissitude Of Late Humanism. Edited By Jeannine De Landtsheer & Henk Nellen. Papers From An International Colloquium Held In Leuven, Brussels, And The Hague, Dec. 14-16, 2006. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 List of Illustrations......Page 10 List of Contributors......Page 14 Introduction......Page 20 Part I Humanist Letter Writing before 1550: Various Approaches......Page 28 Der neulateinische Brief als Quelle politisch-religiöser Überzeugungen: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Diskursivität einer ambivalenten Gattung......Page 30 Spiritual Dialogues and Politics in the Correspondance between Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet (1521–1524)......Page 44 Erasmus and the Philological Study of the New Testament......Page 62 Vives and the Spectre of the Inquisition......Page 80 Correspondance et stratégie d’auteur: les lettres de François Rabelais......Page 96 Part II Humanist Letters as a Mirror of the Reformation......Page 118 Translation in the Service of Politics and Religion: A Family Tradition for Thomas More, Margaret Roper and Mary Clarke Basset......Page 120 The Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Philip Melanchthon’s Letters of Recommendation......Page 136 Georgius Cassander: Searching for Religious Peace in his Correspondence (1557–1565)......Page 154 Carolus Utenhovius (1536–1600): A Tale of Two Cities......Page 176 Andreas Dudith (1533–1589): Conflicts and Strategies of a Religious Individualist in Confessionalising Europe......Page 188 Livres, érudition et irénisme à l’époque des Guerres de religion: Autour de la Satyre Ménippée ......Page 212 Topical Matters in Dedicatory Letters of Latin Plays in the Early Modern Netherlands......Page 230 Part III Learned Letter Writers in the Netherlands as Witnesses of the Dutch Revolt......Page 244 Between Philip II and William of Orange: The Correspondence of Christopher Plantin (ca 1520–1589)......Page 246 New Documents on Benito Arias Montano (ca 1525–1598) and Politics in the Netherlands......Page 260 Humanist Friendship, Politics and Religion in Marnix’s Correspondence just before the Fall of Antwerp: Inconstancy or Constancy?......Page 290 Living to the Letter: The Correspondence of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert......Page 308 Pius Lipsius or Lipsius Proteus?......Page 330 PART IV VICISSITUDES OF LATE HUMANISM......Page 378 Shifting Orthodoxy in the Republic of Letters: Caspar Schoppius mirroring Justus Lipsius......Page 380 The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and their Catholic Correspondents......Page 394 Between Scylla and Charybdis? Evidence on the Conversion of Christoph Besold from his Letters and his Legal and Political Thought......Page 436 Franciscus Junius, F.F.: la question religieuse......Page 454 Breasting the Waves: Grotius’s Letters on Church and State......Page 470 At the Heart of the Twelve Years’ Truce Controversies: Conrad Vorstius, Gerard Vossius and Hugo Grotius......Page 492 A Flaming Row in the Republic of Letters: Claude Saumaise on Hugo Grotius’s Crusade for Church Unity......Page 518 Public Poses Revealed: From Critical Edition to Revision. The Case of Hermannus Samsonius......Page 540 Index Nominum......Page 558 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 "Scylla and Charybdis" offers a collection of studies on epistolary and scholarly responses to religious and political controversy in Early Modern Europe. Careful examination of key intellectual letter-writers yields new biographical information as well as a more balanced judgement on the ways they responded to the challenges of their time