Latinitas Perennis. Volume I: The Continuity of Latin Literature
Biographical note
Wim Verbaal, Ph.D. (2000) in Classical Philology, Ghent, is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Ghent. He has published on intellectual history and poetics of the 12th century including The Council of Sens Reconsidered: Masters, Monks, or Judges (Church History, 74-2005).
Yanick Maes, Ph.D. (2003) in Classical Philology, Ghent, is doctor assistant in the department of Latin & Greek at Ghent University. He is working and publishing on suicide in Vergil, Lucan, the role of exercitation in Quintilian, the use of allusion, and the sociology of literature.
Jan Papy, Ph.D. (1992) in Classical Philology, Leuven, is Research Professor of Neo-Latin at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published on Italian humanism, intellectual history and Renaissance Philosophy in the Low Countries including (with K.A.E. Enenkel) Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance (Brill, 2005).
Yanick Maes, Ph.D. (2003) in Classical Philology, Ghent, is doctor assistant in the department of Latin & Greek at Ghent University. He is working and publishing on suicide in Vergil, Lucan, the role of exercitation in Quintilian, the use of allusion, and the sociology of literature.
Jan Papy, Ph.D. (1992) in Classical Philology, Leuven, is Research Professor of Neo-Latin at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published on Italian humanism, intellectual history and Renaissance Philosophy in the Low Countries including (with K.A.E. Enenkel) Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance (Brill, 2005).
Readership
All those interested in and working on Latin and European literature and their literary history, more specifically on the fields of Classical, Medieval and Neo-Latin.
Reviews
"There can be no doubt that the question of the periodization of Latin literature has to be re-examined, and this first colume clearly is a good start."
Gernot Wieland, The Journal of Medieval Latin, 19 (2009) 343-346.
Gernot Wieland, The Journal of Medieval Latin, 19 (2009) 343-346.
Table of contents
Preface
Notes on the Editors
List of Contributors
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Burden of the Past: By Way of Introduction, Wim Verbaal
PART II. BEGINNINGS?
2. Antiquity’s Antiquity, Sander M. Goldberg
3. Intercultural Imitation in Christian Latin Poetry as a Way to the Medieval Poetics of Alterity, Francesco Stella
4. Linguistic Unity and Variety of Styles: The Latin of Poggio Bracciolini, Davide Canfora
PART III. PERFECTIONS?
5. ‘The Classics’ as Potential for the Future: The ‘High Period’ of Ancient Latin Literature, Gregor Vogt-Spira
6. Mastering Authors and Authorizing Masters in the Long Twelfth Century, Jan M. Ziolkowski
7. Humanist Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Classical Mastery?, Marc van der Poel
PART IV. TRANSITIONS?
8. Bringing Up The Rear: Continuity and Change in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, Michael Roberts
9. The Latin Literature of the Late Middle Ages: Constructions of a Period, Thomas Haye
10. “Posteriores sed non deteriores”: The Humanist Perspective on Latin Literature at the End of the Quattrocento and its Repercussions in the French Renaissance, Perrine Galand-Hallyn
Index Nominum
Notes on the Editors
List of Contributors
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Burden of the Past: By Way of Introduction, Wim Verbaal
PART II. BEGINNINGS?
2. Antiquity’s Antiquity, Sander M. Goldberg
3. Intercultural Imitation in Christian Latin Poetry as a Way to the Medieval Poetics of Alterity, Francesco Stella
4. Linguistic Unity and Variety of Styles: The Latin of Poggio Bracciolini, Davide Canfora
PART III. PERFECTIONS?
5. ‘The Classics’ as Potential for the Future: The ‘High Period’ of Ancient Latin Literature, Gregor Vogt-Spira
6. Mastering Authors and Authorizing Masters in the Long Twelfth Century, Jan M. Ziolkowski
7. Humanist Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Classical Mastery?, Marc van der Poel
PART IV. TRANSITIONS?
8. Bringing Up The Rear: Continuity and Change in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, Michael Roberts
9. The Latin Literature of the Late Middle Ages: Constructions of a Period, Thomas Haye
10. “Posteriores sed non deteriores”: The Humanist Perspective on Latin Literature at the End of the Quattrocento and its Repercussions in the French Renaissance, Perrine Galand-Hallyn
Index Nominum
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