When Greece Flew Across the Alps

The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-17942-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 336, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ciccolella, Federica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Federica Ciccolella is Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. She has published on Byzantine poetry and metrics, late antique epistolography, and the study of Greek in the Renaissance (Donati Graeci, Brill, 2008; Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance, coedited with Luigi Silvano, Brill, 2017).