id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_g3hwc2avtbgdhjlmfx2rxhevee Piotr Urbański Yasmin Haskell 2014 3 .pdf application/pdf 1053 97 70 Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens. Dr. Heerkens, virtually unknown today, was a Dutch physician, poet, and follower of Ovid. Heerkens's poems and the criticism he received from his contemporaries: matters that lie outside Haskell's main area of interest. Haskell writes the following at the end of her introduction: "The book is and every Latin work by Heerkens. We present, rather, a study of the interaction of his Latin works and networks – the latter projected on multiple axes, to this, he wrote many books in Latin and treated this language as a tool of selfexpression. Second, what was the relationship of Latin to the new enlightened Finally, Haskell looks at the Jesuit context of Heerkens's writing. in Germany and Italy were open to Heerkens thanks to the letters of introduction provided by the Elector Clement August. The book's conclusion offers a brilliant analysis of Heerkens's place ./cache/work_g3hwc2avtbgdhjlmfx2rxhevee.pdf ./txt/work_g3hwc2avtbgdhjlmfx2rxhevee.txt