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Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens Yasmin Haskell Nippod edition
Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
Yasmin Haskell
Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.
280 pages, 7 bw illus
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 25, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472587503 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 157 × 16 mm · 399 g |
| Language | English |