The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius, 1511-1575 ― Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age

Junius is widely regarded as the most important representative of northern Dutch humanism between the deaths of Erasmus and Janus Secundus in 1536, and the founding of Leiden University in 1575. To mark his 500th birthday, language scholars and historians held a July 2011 symposium in his native city, Hoorn, and most of the eight essays In this volume are from that gathering. The topics include Junius' Batavia and the formation of a historiographical canon in Holland, his Animadversa and his methods of scholarship, 16th-century plurilingualism, his Emblemata in light of Erasmus/ Adagia, and the function of his emblem commentary and early commentaries of Alciato's Emblematum libellus. Only people and places are indexed. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dirk van Miert (PhD 2004) is a researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (The Hague) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He specialises in the intellectual history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Northern Europe. He is author of Humanism in an Age of Science. The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704 (2009) and of a short biography of Junius (2011). He is co-editor of the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (forthcoming) and managing editor of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources.