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‘Quod ad nos attinet, in pronuntiando peregrini aeque sumus omnes’ (‘As far as we are concerned, we are all equally foreigners in our pronunciation’) (Diego Abad (1727–1779)Cf. Arnold L. Kerson, ‘Diego José Abad, Dissertatio ludicro-seria’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 40 (1991), 357–422, esp. pp. 408–409. At the court of Emperor Maximilian I (1493–1519), Erasmus tells us, a French orator once delivered a formal Latin speech, elegantly written by an Italian, yet the orator’s pronunciation of Latin...
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Inscriptions remain the least studied branch of Neo-Latin letters, despite constituting an autonomous genre governed by its own rules,According to the definition for ancient epigraphy, inscriptions are words or texts written on stone or a durable material. Neo-Latin inscriptions are imitations of such texts; they follows the example of ancient inscriptions and very often adopt the conciseness and the phraseology or style of their models, but as a rule they display a smaller amount of abbreviatio...
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Modern coins and medals containing Latin words or sentences cannot be disconnected from ancient examples. During the Middle Ages, Roman (and Greek) coins and medals exerted only a limited attraction, but for obvious reasons some emperors of the Holy Roman empire, such as Frederick II (1220–1250), had coins and medals made based on Roman examples from the imperial period. Unsurprisingly, the fascination for ancient medals and coins as artistic objects and evidence of the Greco-Roman past increase...
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Although Neo-Latin studies have flourished over the last half century, we may safely say that up to the present, Neo-Latin prose written after 1650–1700 has not received much attention from the scholarly community. It is, in fact, a field in which almost nothing has been done. There are a number of reasons for this neglect, due to the priorities of both scholars of Neo-Latin literature and later Neo-Latin authors themselves. Scholars have always focussed more on belles-lettres and have been rath...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)
Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)
Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.