TY - BOOK AU - Pieters, Jurgen. TI - Speaking with the dead: explorations in literature and history SN - 0748615881 U1 - 809 PY - 2000/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Literature and history. N1 - Among ancient men : Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney and Huygens -- The gaze of Medusa and the practice of the historian : Rubens and Huygens -- The historical shiver : Flaubert, Michelet and Keats -- 'Now let us go into this blind world' : Dante, Virgil, Homer and T.S. Eliot -- The sounds of silence : Roland Barthes ER -