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Of Handbooks, Companions, and Essay Collections: Recent Multi-Authored Volumes on Calvin and Calvinism, the Genevan Reformation, and Global Protestantism

Readers of this journal will surely have noticed the remarkable proliferation in the past few decades of “handbooks” and “companions” devoted to major – and even obscure – topics, thinkers, and actors in religious history. The simultaneous appearance in 2021 of The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism and Brill's Companion to the Reformation in Geneva provides an opportunity to reflect on the character and value of such volumes, the conditions of their production, and the reasons for their recent proliferation. Also discussed here for purposes of comparison will be an ambitious collection of essays of a more conventional sort: Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations, edited by Ulinka Rublack.1

Greek literature

If you cast your mind back to 2016 you may (or may not) recall Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis: a substantial volume, comprising thirty-two chapters in 754 pages of text, together with twenty-six pages of preliminaries, seventy-seven pages of bibliography, and forty-one pages of indices. Prudent readers should be cautious when handling a blockbuster volume on this scale; the risk of dropping one and a half kilos of scholarly text on one's foot is not to be treated with careless abandon. There is, then, something to be said in favour of less demanding but more accessible starting points for the exploration of the Nonnian landscape. For most readers, Robert Shorrock's The Challenge of Epic. Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca (2001) and The Myth of Paganism. Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity (2011) would provide a more readily accessible resource. Admittedly, accessible guidance is not easy to find when it has been swamped by a tsunami of impressive editorial scholarship: for example, Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Nonnus of Panopolis in Context; Camille Geisz, A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca. Storytelling in Late Antique Epic; Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll's Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II. Poetry, Religion, and Society; and Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska's Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III. Old Questions and New Perspectives. As for Nonnus’ Paraphrase of John's Gospel, I confess that I have barely had time to glance at it in its entirety. Perhaps I should have been paying more selective attention to Nonnus, and less to everything else.

New Books across the Disciplines

New Books across the Disciplines

A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina. Brill's Companion to the Slavic World. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiv, 507 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $179.00, hard bound. - Hans Christian Andersen in Russia. Ed. Mads Sohl Jessen, Marina Balina, Ben Hellman, and Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen. Odense, Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2020. 480 pp.

A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina. Brill's Companion to the Slavic World. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiv, 507 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $115.00, hard bound. - Volume 80 Issue 4

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles, edited by Rosanna Lauriola and Kyriakos N. Demetriou; Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus, edited by Rebecca Futo Kennedy

<i>Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles</i>, edited by Rosanna Lauriola and Kyriakos N. Demetriou; <i>Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus</i>, edited by Rebecca Futo Kennedy

INSIGHTS INTO MILITARY DEFEAT - (J.H.) Clark, (B.) Turner (edd.) Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society. (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 2.) Pp. xviii + 382, ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €149, US$172. ISBN: 978-90-04-29858-3.

INSIGHTS INTO MILITARY DEFEAT - (J.H.) Clark, (B.) Turner (edd.) Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society. (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 2.) Pp. xviii + 382, ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €149, US$172. ISBN: 978-90-04-29858-3. - Volume 69 Issue 1

A. Kim, Brill's companion to German Platonism

A. Kim, Brill's companion to German Platonism

ANDREA FALCON (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity. Series: Brill's companions to classical reception. Series Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou. Vol. 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. ISSN 2213-1426, 288 pp.

Review of ANDREA FALCON (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity. Series: Brill's companions to classical reception. Series Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou. Vol. 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. ISSN 2213-1426, 288 pp.

A Companion to Medieval Christian Humanism: Essays on Principal Thinkers. Edited by John P Bequette . Brill's Companion to the Christian Tradition 69. Leiden: Brill, 2016. viii + 354 pp. $258.00 hardcover.

A Companion to Medieval Christian Humanism: Essays on Principal Thinkers. Edited by John P Bequette . Brill's Companion to the Christian Tradition 69. Leiden: Brill, 2016. viii + 354 pp. $258.00 hardcover.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy: Scholarly, Theatrical and Literary Receptions Edited by EricDodson‐Robinson. Brill's Companions to Classical Reception. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2016. Pp. vii + 330. $163.00.

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 42, Issue 3 p. 206-206 Short Reviews of Recent Publications: Greece, Rome, Greco-Roman Period Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy: Scholarly, Theatrical and Literary Receptions Edited by Eric Dodson-Robinson. Brill's Companions to Classical Reception. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2016. Pp. vii + 330. $163.00. Mary Hamil Gilbert, Mary Hamil Gilbert University of VirginiaSearch for more papers by this author Mary Hamil Gilbert, Mary Hamil Gilbert University of VirginiaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 September 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.12570Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume42, Issue3September 2016Pages 206-206 RelatedInformation

Brill's companion to Statius

Brill's companion to Statius

Brill's companion to ancient Greek scholarship

Contents VOLUME 1 Preface Part 1- History 1 Greek Scholarship from its Beginnings to Alexandria Anna Novokhatko 2 Hellenistic Scholarship Fausto Montana 3 Philology and Grammar in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity: An Historical and Systematic Outline Stephanos Matthaios 4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529-1453) Filippomaria Pontani Part 2- Disciplinary Profiles 1 The Sources of our Knowledge of Ancient Scholarship Eleanor Dickey 2 Definitions of Grammar Alfons Wouters-Pierre Swiggers 3 Typology of Philological Writings Markus Dubischar 4 Typology of Grammatical Treatises Stefano Valente 5 Typology of Lexicographical Works Renzo Tosi VOLUME 2 Part 3 - Between Theory and Practice Section 3.1 - Scholarship 1 Ekdosis. A Product of the Ancient Scholarship Franco Montanari 2 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer Richard Hunter 3 Poetics and Literary Criticism in the Framework of Ancient Greek Scholarship Rene Nunlist Section 3.2 - Grammar 1 Description of the Constituent Elements of the (Greek) Language Pierre Swiggers and Alfons Wouters 2 Language Correctness (Hellenismos) and Its Criteria Lara Pagani 3 Syntax Jean Lallot 4 Ancient Etymology: A Tool for Thinking Ineke Sluiter 5 Ancient Theory of Prosody Philomen Probert 6 Orthography Stefano Valente Section 3.3 - Philological and Linguistic Observations and Theories in Interdisciplinary Context 1 Grammatical Theory and Rhetorical Teaching Casper C. de Jonge 2 Philological Observations and Approaches to Language in the Philosophical Context Walter Lapini 3 Mythography Claudio Meliado 4 Historiography, Ethnography, Geography Roberto Nicolai 5 Medicine and Exegesis Daniela Manetti 6 Hellenistic Astronomers and Scholarship Raffaele Luiselli 7 On the Interface of Philology and Science: The Case of Zoology Oliver Hellmann Bibliography General Index Passages Index

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Brill's companion to Seneca, philosopher and dramatist

Contents Preface Part One - Life and Legacy Imago suae vitae: Seneca's Life and Career Thomas Habinek TheWorks of Seneca the Younger and Their Dates C.W. Marshall Transmission Rolando Ferri Seneca and Senecae: Images of Seneca from Antiquity to Present Seneca the Philosopher Matthias Laarmann Seneca the Dramatist Werner Schubert Part Two - Philosophy Context: Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries John Sellars Works De providentia R. Scott Smith De constantia sapientis R. Scott Smith De ira Maria Monteleone Consolatio ad Marciam Jochen Sauer De vita beata Fritz-Heiner Mutschler De otio R. Scott Smith De tranquillitate animi Fritz-Heiner Mutschler De brevitate vitae R. Scott Smith Consolatio ad Polybium Jochen Sauer Consolatio ad Helviam Jochen Sauer De clementia Ermanno Malaspina Naturales quaestiones Gareth D. Williams Epistulae morales Aldo Setaioli De beneficiis Mario Lentano Lost and FragmentaryWorks Anna Maria Ferrero Epistulae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam Alfons Furst Topics Ontology and Epistemology Mireille Armisen-Marchetti Ethics I: Philosophy as Therapy, Self-Transformation, and Lebensform Aldo Setaioli Ethics II: Action and Emotion Margaret R. Graver Ethics III: Free Will and Autonomy Aldo Setaioli Ethics IV: Wisdom and Virtue Jula Wildberger Ethics V: Death and Time Catharine Edwards Physics I: Body and Soul R. Scott Smith Physics II: Cosmology and Natural Philosophy Bardo Maria Gauly Physics III: Theology Aldo Setaioli Part Three - Tragedy Context Wolf-Luder Liebermann Works Hercules furens Margarethe Billerbeck Troas Wilfried Stroh Phoenissae Marica Frank Medea Wolf-Luder Liebermann Phaedra Roland Mayer Oedipus Karlheinz Tochterle Agamemnon Christoph Kugelmeier Thyestes Chiara Torre DubiousWorks Hercules Oetaeus C.A.J. Littlewood Octavia Rolando Ferri Topics Space and Time in Senecan Ernst A. Schmidt Vision, Sound, and Silence in the Drama of theWord Andreas Heil The Chorus: Seneca as Lyric Poet Giancarlo Mazzoli The Rhetoric of Rationality and Irrationality Gottfried Mader Characters G.W.M. Harrison Themes G.W.M. Harrison Greek and Roman Elements in Senecan Tragedy Sander M. Goldberg Philosophical Tragedy? Francois-Regis Chaumartin Part Four - Apocolocyntosis Apocolocyntosis Renata Roncali Part Five - Other Works Epigrams Joachim Dingel De vita patris Michael Winterbottom Part Six - Synthesis Seneca's Language and Style Michael von Albrecht Systematic Connections between Seneca's PhilosophicalWorks and Tragedies Susanna E. Fischer List of Journal Abbreviations Bibliography Andrea Balbo and Ermanno Malaspina Editions of Seneca'sWorks (Since Haase's Opera Omnia) Contributors General Index

Gabriele Marasco (Ed.), Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity. A Brill Companion. (Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies.) Leiden/Boston, Brill 2011

Article Gabriele Marasco (Ed.), Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity. A Brill Companion. (Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies.) Leiden/Boston, Brill 2011 was published on February 27, 2014 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 298, issue 1).

Brill's companion to Sophocles

Brill's companion to Sophocles

A Companion to Ancient Macedonia ed. by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington, and: Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 B.C.-300 A.D. ed. by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington (review)

A Companion to Ancient Macedonia ed. by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington, and: Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 B.C.-300 A.D. ed. by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington (review)

The New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism. Edited by Hilaire Kallendorf. Brill's Companion to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xxii + 516 pp. $229 cloth.

The New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism. Edited by Hilaire Kallendorf. Brill's Companion to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xxii + 516 pp. $229 cloth.

Brill's Companion to Hesiod – Edited by Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, and Christos Tsagalis

Brill's Companion to Hesiod – Edited by Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, and Christos Tsagalis

Brill's Companion to Propertius

Brill's Companion to Propertius