New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World : The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Rec

Van Rooy, Raf

Brill（2023/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 178 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004547872
• DDC分類 480

Full Description

Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, activated their classical bilingual competence to impress patrons; nuance their ideas and feelings; manage information by encoding gossip and private matters in Greek; and adorn books and art with poems in the two languagges, and so on. As reader, you discover promising research perspectives to bridge the gap between the long-standing discipline of Neo-Latin studies and the young field of New Ancient Greek studies.

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Conventions

Abstract

Keywords

 PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE

 1 Introduction

 2 Preliminaries

 PART 2: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES

 3 The Bird's Eye: Toward a Long History of Classical Bilingualism

 4 The Worm's Eye: Focused Approaches to Texts and Contexts

 5 Outlook: Pulling the Trojan Horse into Neo-Latin Studies

References

Index