Floris Verhaart studied Classics and Slavic languages at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and finished his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include a broad range of aspects of the religious, cultural, and intellectual world of early modern Europe, including the history of religion, scholarship, and sex and sexuality.

V.'s monograph nevertheless delivers a noteworthy contribution to the field in revising our understanding of the 'culture wars' of the period and in shedding new light on the development of Classics as a modern academic discipline.

• Table of contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: The Construction of Humanism 3: Sex and Scholarship: Textual Criticism as an Instrument in the Struggle for 4: Scholarly Independence 5: The Quest for Civic Virtue 6: Conclusion Bibliography

Floris Verhaart studied Classics and Slavic languages at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and finished his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include a broad range of aspects of the religious, cultural, and intellectual world of early modern Europe, including the history of religion, scholarship, and sex and sexuality.

V.'s monograph nevertheless delivers a noteworthy contribution to the field in revising our understanding of the 'culture wars' of the period and in shedding new light on the development of Classics as a modern academic discipline.

• Table of contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: The Construction of Humanism 3: Sex and Scholarship: Textual Criticism as an Instrument in the Struggle for 4: Scholarly Independence 5: The Quest for Civic Virtue 6: Conclusion Bibliography

Floris Verhaart studied Classics and Slavic languages at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and finished his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include a broad range of aspects of the religious, cultural, and intellectual world of early modern Europe, including the history of religion, scholarship, and sex and sexuality.

V.'s monograph nevertheless delivers a noteworthy contribution to the field in revising our understanding of the 'culture wars' of the period and in shedding new light on the development of Classics as a modern academic discipline.

• Table of contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: The Construction of Humanism 3: Sex and Scholarship: Textual Criticism as an Instrument in the Struggle for 4: Scholarly Independence 5: The Quest for Civic Virtue 6: Conclusion Bibliography