Marc van der Poel, Ph.D. (1987) in classics, Research Fellow of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (1992-1997), teaches Latin at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. He has published on Renaissance rhetoric and the transmission of ancient Greek and Latin literature.

"...van der Poel traces carefully how Agrippa structures his predominantly biblical arguments and secular 'loci' in praise of women. "Agrippa's theologically motivated feminism" is profiled against the traditional Church view on the inferior role of women in a way that sounds very modern."Josef Schmidt, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999."He has succeeded very well in drawing an accurate portrait of this fascinating humanist who straddles the medieval, scholastic tradition..."Jeanine De Landtsheer, Seventeenth-Century News, 1999.

Marc van der Poel, Ph.D. (1987) in classics, Research Fellow of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (1992-1997), teaches Latin at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. He has published on Renaissance rhetoric and the transmission of ancient Greek and Latin literature.

"...van der Poel traces carefully how Agrippa structures his predominantly biblical arguments and secular 'loci' in praise of women. "Agrippa's theologically motivated feminism" is profiled against the traditional Church view on the inferior role of women in a way that sounds very modern."Josef Schmidt, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999."He has succeeded very well in drawing an accurate portrait of this fascinating humanist who straddles the medieval, scholastic tradition..."Jeanine De Landtsheer, Seventeenth-Century News, 1999.