Preliminary Material /F. Akkerman and A.J. Vanderjagt -- AGRICOLA AND GRONINGEN /F. Akkerman -- AGRICOLA AS A GREEK SCHOLAR /J. Ijsewijn -- DISTINCTIVE DISCIPLINE: RUDOLPH AGRICOLA'S INFLUENCE ON METHODICAL THINKING IN THE HUMANITIES /Lisa Jardine -- AGRICOLA UND DIE GESCHICHTE /Eckhard Kessler -- NOTIZIE PER IL SOGGIORNO IN ITALIA DI RODOLFO AGRICOLA /Agostino Sottili -- ROELOFF HUUSMAN, SECRETARIUS DER STADT GRONINGEN 1479/80-1484 /F.J. Bakker -- RUDOLPH AGRICOLA AND THE ORGAN OF THE MARTINIKERK IN GRONINGEN /C.H. Edskes -- THE PORTRAITS OF RUDOLPH AGRICOLA /Rudolf E.O. Ekkart -- RUDOLPH AGRICOLA AND HIS BOOKS, WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE SCRIPTORIUM OF SELWERD /Jos.M.M. Hermans -- THE LETTERS OF RODOLPHUS AGRICOLA TO JACOBUS BARBIRIANUS /Elly Kooiman -- RODOLPHUS AGRICOLA UND CONRADUS CELTIS /Kurt Adel -- AGRICOLAS ARBEIT AM TEXT DES TACITUS UND DES JÜNGEREN PLINIUS /F. Römer -- THEODORICUS ULSENIUS, ALTER AGRICOLA? THE POPULARITY OF AGRICOLA WITH EARLY DUTCH HUMANISTS /Catrien Santing -- AGRICOLA AND ERASMUS: ERASMUS' INHERITANCE OF NORTHERN HUMANISM /R.J. Schoeck -- AGRICOLA ALTER MARO /P. Schoonbeeg -- CORNELIUS AURELIUS (c. 1460-1531), PRAECEPTOR ERASMI? /C.P.H.M. Tilmans -- MARSILE FICIN, AGRICOLA ET LEURS TRADUCTIONS DE L'AXIOCHOS /G. Tournoy -- RUDOLPH AGRICOLA ON ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY /A.J. Vanderjagt -- AGRICOLA AND WORD EXPLANATION /Ari Wesseling -- AGRICOLA'S VIEW ON UNIVERSALS /H.A.G. Braakhuis -- THE ARTES AT FERRARA: POMPONAZZI AND AGRICOLA /Wim Van Dooren -- RUDOLPH AGRICOLA'S TOPICS /P. Mack -- AGRICOLA ET RAMUS - DIALECTIQUE ET RHÉTORIQUE /Kees Meerhoff -- LE DE INVENTIONE DIALECTICA D'AGRICOLA DANS LA TRADITION RHÉTORIQUE D'ARISTOTE À PORT-ROYAL /F. Muller -- THE INFLUENCE OF AGRICOLA AND MELANCHTHON ON HOBBES' EARLY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE /J. Prins -- PSYCHOANALYSIS AS A REDISCOVERY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC /P. Van Der Zwaal -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /F. Akkerman and A.J. Vanderjagt -- INDICES /F. Akkerman and A.J. Vanderjagt.

Papers examining the Rodolphus Agricola, father of northern European humanism.

This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.

Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) is the author of a number of astute but difficult texts which indicate the high level of late-medieval spirituality and scholarship in northern Europe. Together with his younger friend Agricola (1444-1485) he ushered in the beginning of modern intellectual life in the northern part of the Netherlands (the province of Groningen) and adjoining Germany. This volume contains eight contributions on Gansfort, enlarging the range of perceptions of his work and personality for the first time since the major studies of 1917 and 1933 by Maarten van Rhijn. There are three additional articles on the Devotio Moderna and its influence, and eight on various subjects and personalities touching early Humanism and the Reformation in this range. Each of these studies is the result of entirely new and original research. The volume is concluded by a large bibliography.

Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth of "Pan-Posidonianism." He has presented a clearer picture of the Posidonius to whom we may have access. The Passionate Intellect is both a Festschrift offered to Professor Kidd and an important collection of essays on the transformation of classical traditions. The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd's own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, "The Passionate Intellect." Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions. The chapters cover the whole of the classical and late antique periods, including the main genres of classical literature and history, and the gradual emergence of Christian literature and themes in late antiquity. Many of the papers naturally concentrate on ancient philosophy and its legacy. Others deal with ancient literary theory, history, poetry, and drama. Most of the papers deal with their subjects at some length and are significant contributions in their own right. The contributors to this collection include key figures hi contemporary classical scholarship, including: C. Carey (London); C. J. Classen (Gottingen); J. Dillon (Dublin); K. J. Dover (St. Andrews); W. W. Fortenbaugh (Rutgers); H. M. Hine (St. Andrews); J. Mansfeld (Utrecht); R. Janko and R. Sharpies (London); and J. S. Richardson (Edinburgh). This book will be invaluable to philosophers, classicists, and cultural historians.