Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 158

This work explores the works and careers of a group of Renaissance Portuguese poets, and illuminates the ways in which they conceived of themselves and their pr

Memory and Identity in the Learned World offers a detailed and varied account of community formation in the early modern world of learning and science. The book

Containing biographical and critical essays on 2,057 writers from antiquity to present. Averaging 1000 words per entry.

The volume contains selected papers from two conferences in 2003, at the University of Bergen (Norway) and at Central European University in Budapest. They deal