Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe

15th-17th Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34385-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 303, 562 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This volume, edited by Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers, investigates modes of receiving and responding to Greeks, Greece, and Greek in early modern Europe (15th-17th centuries). The book's seventeen detailed studies illuminate the reception of Greek culture (the classical, Byzantine, and even post-Byzantine traditions), the Greek language (ancient, vernacular, and 'humanist'), as well as the people claiming, or being assigned, Greek identities during this period in different geographical and cultural contexts.

Discussing subjects as diverse as, for example, Greek studies and the Reformation, artistic interchange between Greek East and Latin West, networks of communication in the Greek diaspora, and the ramifications of Greek antiquarianism, the book aims at encouraging a more concerted debate about the role of Hellenism in early modern Europe that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries, and opening ways towards a more over-arching understanding of this multifaceted cultural phenomenon.

Contributors: Aslihan Akisik-Karakullukçu, Michele Bacci, Malika Bastin-Hammou, Peter Bell, Michail Chatzidakis, Federica Ciccolella, Calliope Dourou, Anthony Ellis, Niccolò Fattori, Maria Luisa Napolitano, Janika Päll, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Niketas Siniossoglou, William Stenhouse, Paola Tomè, Raf Van Rooy, and Stefan Weise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Constantinidou, Natasha

Lamers, Han

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction: Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe

Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers

Part 1: Access and Dissemination

Part 2: Learning, Teaching, and Printing Greek

1 Aldus Manutius and the Learning of Greek: the Aldine Appendix

Paola Tomè (†)

2 From a Thirsty Desert to the Rise of the Collège de France: Greek Studies in Paris, c.1490–1540

Luigi-Alberto Sanchi

3 Teaching Greek with Aristophanes in the French Renaissance, 1528–1549

Malika Bastin-Hammou

4 A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (1490–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century Louvain

Raf Van Rooy

5 Greek History in the Early-Modern Classroom: Lectures on Herodotus by Johannes Rosa and School Notes by Jacques Bongars (Jena, 1568)

Anthony Ellis

Part 3: Migration, Exchange, and Identity

Cultural Encounters and Exchanges between ‘Greek East’ and ‘Latin West’

6 From “Bounteous Flux of Matter” to Hellenic City: Late Byzantine Representations of Constantinople and the Western Audience

Aslihan Akisik-Karakullukçu

7 Icons of Narratives: Greek-Venetian Artistic Interchange, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries

Michele Bacci

8 Barbaric and Assimilated Hellenes: Textual and Visual Images of Greek Scholars between Lapo da Castiglionchio (c.1405–1438) and Paolo Giovio (1483–1552)

Peter Bell

9 Maximos Margounios (c.1549–1602), his Anacreontic Hymns, and the Byzantine Revival in Early Modern Germany

Federica Ciccolella

Perspectives on Greek Migrants in the West

10 Love and Exile in Michael Marullus Tarchaniota: Geographical Exile, Spiritual Homelessness

Niketas Siniossogliou

11 The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 Iliad and the Unprosodic New Trojans

Calliope Dourou

12 From Courts to Cities: Greek Migration, Community Formation, and Networks of Mutual Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Niccolò Fattori

Appropriations and Use: Cultural & Religious

History, Archaeology, and Antiquarianism

13 The Greekness of Greek Inscriptions: Ancient Inscriptions in Early Modern Scholarship

William Stenhouse

14 Pirro Ligorio (1513–1583) and Greek Antiquity

Michail Chatzidakis

15 Ancient Coins and the Use of Greek History in Sicilia et Magna Graecia by Hubertus Goltzius (1525–1583)

Maria Luisa Napolitano

Humanist Greek and the Reformation

16 Hyperborean Flowers: Humanist Greek Around the Baltic Sea, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Janika Päll

17 “Graecia transvolavit Alpes”: the Evaluation of Humanist Greek Writing in Germany by Georg Lizel (1694–1761)

Stefan Weise

General Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Natasha Constantinidou, Ph.D. (Edinburgh) is Assistant Professor in European History (University of Cyprus). She has published on book and intellectual history, including Responses to Religious Division, c. 1580–1620 (2017) and a number of articles on sixteenth-century Greek printing.

Han Lamers (Ph.D. Leiden University, 2013) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, and the History of Art and Ideas of the University of Oslo (Norway). His publications include Greece Reinvented: Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy (2015).