Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.Konrad A. Ottenheym is Professor of Architectural History at Utrecht University. His publications are focused on Dutch architecture and architectural theory of the early modern period with a special attention to its relationships with other European regions.

“This is a fabulous book […]. The volume is beautifully produced, featuring more than 200 excellent color illustrations. A pleasure to behold, it belongs in every academic library. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” John J. Butt, James Madison University. In: Choice Connect, Vol. 57, No. 7 (March 2020).

• IntroductionPart 1: Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe1 Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe2 Supposed Ancestors3 The Origin Legends of the European Nations4 What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History5 A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and FalsificationsPart 2: Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries6 The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer7 Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On the Romans, Batavians and GiantsPart 3: The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic8 From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–16509 Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland10 The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch CitiesConclusionNotesList of FiguresBibliography Index

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.Konrad A. Ottenheym is Professor of Architectural History at Utrecht University. His publications are focused on Dutch architecture and architectural theory of the early modern period with a special attention to its relationships with other European regions.

“This is a fabulous book […]. The volume is beautifully produced, featuring more than 200 excellent color illustrations. A pleasure to behold, it belongs in every academic library. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” John J. Butt, James Madison University. In: Choice Connect, Vol. 57, No. 7 (March 2020).

• IntroductionPart 1: Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe1 Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe2 Supposed Ancestors3 The Origin Legends of the European Nations4 What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History5 A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and FalsificationsPart 2: Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries6 The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer7 Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On the Romans, Batavians and GiantsPart 3: The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic8 From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–16509 Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland10 The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch CitiesConclusionNotesList of FiguresBibliography Index