Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Illustrations

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List of Contributors

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Introduction

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Part I Humanist Letter Writing before 1550: Various Approaches

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Der neulateinische Brief als Quelle politisch-religiöser Überzeugungen: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Diskursivität einer ambivalenten Gattung

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Spiritual Dialogues and Politics in the Correspondance between Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet (1521–1524)

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Erasmus and the Philological Study of the New Testament

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Vives and the Spectre of the Inquisition

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Correspondance et stratégie d’auteur: les lettres de François Rabelais

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Part II Humanist Letters as a Mirror of the Reformation

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Translation in the Service of Politics and Religion: A Family Tradition for Thomas More, Margaret Roper and Mary Clarke Basset

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The Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Philip Melanchthon’s Letters of Recommendation

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Georgius Cassander: Searching for Religious Peace in his Correspondence (1557–1565)

pp.：  153 – 174

Carolus Utenhovius (1536–1600): A Tale of Two Cities

pp.：  175 – 186

Andreas Dudith (1533–1589): Conflicts and Strategies of a Religious Individualist in Confessionalising Europe

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Livres, érudition et irénisme à l’époque des Guerres de religion: Autour de la Satyre Ménippée

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Topical Matters in Dedicatory Letters of Latin Plays in the Early Modern Netherlands

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Part III Learned Letter Writers in the Netherlands as Witnesses of the Dutch Revolt

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Between Philip II and William of Orange: The Correspondence of Christopher Plantin (ca 1520–1589)

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New Documents on Benito Arias Montano (ca 1525–1598) and Politics in the Netherlands

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Humanist Friendship, Politics and Religion in Marnix’s Correspondence just before the Fall of Antwerp: Inconstancy or Constancy?

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Living to the Letter: The Correspondence of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

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Pius Lipsius or Lipsius Proteus?

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PART IV VICISSITUDES OF LATE HUMANISM

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Shifting Orthodoxy in the Republic of Letters: Caspar Schoppius mirroring Justus Lipsius

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The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and their Catholic Correspondents

pp.：  393 – 434

Between Scylla and Charybdis? Evidence on the Conversion of Christoph Besold from his Letters and his Legal and Political Thought

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Franciscus Junius, F.F.: la question religieuse

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Breasting the Waves: Grotius’s Letters on Church and State

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At the Heart of the Twelve Years’ Truce Controversies: Conrad Vorstius, Gerard Vossius and Hugo Grotius

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A Flaming Row in the Republic of Letters: Claude Saumaise on Hugo Grotius’s Crusade for Church Unity

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Public Poses Revealed: From Critical Edition to Revision. The Case of Hermannus Samsonius

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Index Nominum

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