Author Description

The long quarrel in the eighteenth century / Jacques Bos and Jan Rotmans -- The quarrel in the long eighteenth century: from "ancient and modern" to "classical and romantic" / Larry F. Norman -- The speculative foundations of the quarrel: Fontenelle's Plurality of inhabited worlds and the 'epistemology of the uncertain' / Christine Zabel -- The quarrel over chronology at the Académie des inscriptions: ancient history, modern methods, and the autonomy of the historical discipline / Anton M. Matytsin -- Questioning Homer's Iliad? Different perceptions of the ancient world in the pages of the Nouveau Mercure galant / David D. Reitsam -- Thersites moralized: eighteenth-century corrective, apologetic and exegetic readings of the Iliad / Vera Fasshauer -- "Horace is dead, but I am alive!" Epic failure and satiric authority in eighteenth-century Sweden / Anna Cullhed -- 'Necesse est indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum': William Hogarth's The four times of day and the challenge to past models in eighteenth-century art / Friederike Vosskamp -- Ochlocracy and democracy in the "long quarrel": modern republicanism and its ancient rivals revisited / Iain McDaniel -- The political thought of Henri de Boulainvilliers reconsidered / Andrew Jainchill -- Between history and political economy: the debate over ancient populousness in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway / Håkon Evju.