The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabi
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 ma
Vossius is remembered primarily for his magnificent library and his philological studies, but in his day was considered, with Huygens (1629-95), the Dutch Republic's foremost students of nature. Contr
A scholar of early modern intellectual history, Miert (Warburg Institute, London) examines the Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre, which was founded in 1632 and was converted into the University of Amsterda