Full Description
When Greece Flew Across the Alps offers a reconstruction of the status of Greek studies in the vast territory lying between Spain and Russia and Austria and the Scandinavian Peninsula, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although closely related to the revival of Greek studies in fifteenth-century Italy, European Hellenism acquired distinctive peculiarities due to the influence of the Reformation, the advent and spread of printing, and initiatives taken by individuals or institutions. By analyzing this important aspect of the reception of the Classics, this volume contributes to a better understanding of early modern European culture.
Contributors: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Graecia transvolavit Alpes
Editor's Note
Contributors
1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men
Inmaculada Pérez Martín
2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budé's Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540
Luigi-Alberto Sanchi
3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé's Collection of Greek Letters
Gianmario Cattaneo
4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape
Natasha Constantinidou
5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges
Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy
6 Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century)
Christian Gastgeber
7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania
Iulian Mihai Damian
8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg
Marianne Pade
9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon's Greek Grammar
Federica Ciccolella
10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century
Tua Korhonen
11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden
Johanna Akujärvi
12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia
Ovanes Akopyan
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials
Index of Personal Names
