School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne''s Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne''s own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two fo...