Toon Van Houdt is associate professor of Latin at KU Leuven. His research focuses on the history of political and ethical thought in early modern times. Jan Papy is full professor of Latin and Neo-Latin literature at KU Leuven. He publishes on Renaissance Humanism in the Low Countries, intellectual history, and Lipsius and Neo-Stoic philosophy. Gilbert Tournoy is emeritus professor of Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at KU Leuven.

• IntroductionToon Van Houdt & Jan PapyPART I : The Rhetoric of Letter WritingJudith Rice HendersonHumanist Letter Writing: Private Conversation or Public Forum?Charles FantazziVives versus Erasmus on the Art of Letter WritingChristine BénéventErasme en sa correspondance: conquête(s) et défaite(s) du langageTim MarkeyStyle and Tradition in Ben Jonson's Verse EpistlesKristine HaugenImaginary Correspondence: Epistolary Rhetoric and the Hermeneutics of DisbeliefPART II : Friendship and PatronageWarren V. BoutcherLiterature, Thought or Fact? Past and Present Directions in the Study of the Early Modern LetterJacqueline GlomskiCareerism at Cracow: The Dedicatory Letters of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox (1510-1530)Mark MorfordLipsius' Letters of RecommendationElisabet GöranssonLetters, Learning and Learned Ladies. An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr.'s (1634-1715) Correspondence with Scandinavian WomenPart III : Exchanging Letters in the Republic of LettersHenk J.M. NellenIn Strict Confidence: Grotius' Correspondence with his Socinian FriendsCorinna VermeulenStrategies and Slander in the Protestant Part of the Republic of Letters: Image, Friendship and Patronage in Etienne de Courcelles' CorrespondenceAntonio IurilliLa crisi del sapere rinascimentale in un carteggio italiano di primo SettecentoPART IV : 'Programming', criticizing and libellingErika RummelArgumentis, non contumeliis: The Humanistic Model for Religious Debate and Erasmus' Apologetic LettersJane GriffithsThe Grammarian as 'Poeta' and 'Vates': Self-Presentation in the AntibossiconIordan AvramovLetter Writing and the Management of Scientific Controversy: The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg (1661-1677)PART V : Literary Fame and Scientific ReputationKarl A. E. EnenkelDie Grundlegung humanistischer Selbstpräsentation im Brief-Corpus: Francesco Petrarcas Familiarium rerum libri XXIVLisa JardineBefore Clarissa: Erasmus, 'Letters of Obscure Men', and Epistolary FictionsEdward V. GeorgeConceal or Disclose? The Limits of Self-Representation in the Letters of Juan Luis VivesPhilip J. FordSelf-Presentation in the Published Correspondence of George BuchananAdam MosleyTycho Brahe's Epistolae Astronomicae: A ReappraisalIndex nominum

Toon Van Houdt is associate professor of Latin at KU Leuven. His research focuses on the history of political and ethical thought in early modern times. Jan Papy is full professor of Latin and Neo-Latin literature at KU Leuven. He publishes on Renaissance Humanism in the Low Countries, intellectual history, and Lipsius and Neo-Stoic philosophy. Gilbert Tournoy is emeritus professor of Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at KU Leuven.

• IntroductionToon Van Houdt & Jan PapyPART I : The Rhetoric of Letter WritingJudith Rice HendersonHumanist Letter Writing: Private Conversation or Public Forum?Charles FantazziVives versus Erasmus on the Art of Letter WritingChristine BénéventErasme en sa correspondance: conquête(s) et défaite(s) du langageTim MarkeyStyle and Tradition in Ben Jonson's Verse EpistlesKristine HaugenImaginary Correspondence: Epistolary Rhetoric and the Hermeneutics of DisbeliefPART II : Friendship and PatronageWarren V. BoutcherLiterature, Thought or Fact? Past and Present Directions in the Study of the Early Modern LetterJacqueline GlomskiCareerism at Cracow: The Dedicatory Letters of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox (1510-1530)Mark MorfordLipsius' Letters of RecommendationElisabet GöranssonLetters, Learning and Learned Ladies. An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr.'s (1634-1715) Correspondence with Scandinavian WomenPart III : Exchanging Letters in the Republic of LettersHenk J.M. NellenIn Strict Confidence: Grotius' Correspondence with his Socinian FriendsCorinna VermeulenStrategies and Slander in the Protestant Part of the Republic of Letters: Image, Friendship and Patronage in Etienne de Courcelles' CorrespondenceAntonio IurilliLa crisi del sapere rinascimentale in un carteggio italiano di primo SettecentoPART IV : 'Programming', criticizing and libellingErika RummelArgumentis, non contumeliis: The Humanistic Model for Religious Debate and Erasmus' Apologetic LettersJane GriffithsThe Grammarian as 'Poeta' and 'Vates': Self-Presentation in the AntibossiconIordan AvramovLetter Writing and the Management of Scientific Controversy: The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg (1661-1677)PART V : Literary Fame and Scientific ReputationKarl A. E. EnenkelDie Grundlegung humanistischer Selbstpräsentation im Brief-Corpus: Francesco Petrarcas Familiarium rerum libri XXIVLisa JardineBefore Clarissa: Erasmus, 'Letters of Obscure Men', and Epistolary FictionsEdward V. GeorgeConceal or Disclose? The Limits of Self-Representation in the Letters of Juan Luis VivesPhilip J. FordSelf-Presentation in the Published Correspondence of George BuchananAdam MosleyTycho Brahe's Epistolae Astronomicae: A ReappraisalIndex nominum