New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World - The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond

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.

List of 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

Product details

• Authors: Raf van Rooy, Raf Van Rooy
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2023
• EAN: 9789004547872
• ISBN: 978-90-0-454787-2
• No. of pages: 178
• Weight: 328 g
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in; Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies