TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cox Jensen,Freyja
TI  - Reading the Roman republic in early modern England
T2  - Library of the written word
SN  - 9789004233218
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden, the Netherlands, Boston, Massachusetts.
PB  - Brill
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - Rome
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Roman influences
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Study skills
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - gnd
KW  - Rome (Empire)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England; Reading the Roman Republic. -- "The attaining of humane learning": education and Roman history -- Editions and translations: the publishing and circulation of Roman history -- Evidence of reading: catalogues and inventories -- Evidence of reading: commonplace books, notebooks and marginalia -- Re-imagining Rome. -- From Pharsalus to Philippi: stories of Pompey and Caesar -- "You are his heirs": Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the ides -- Caesar Augustus: "how happely he governed"? -- Conclusion. "[A]nother Rome in the West?"
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