New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World : The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond / Raf Van Rooy, KU Leuven.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences | Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9789004547902
- The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond
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- P115
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Raf Van Rooy -- Copyright Page / Raf Van Rooy -- Dedication / Raf Van Rooy -- Acknowledgments / Raf Van Rooy -- Conventions / Raf Van Rooy -- New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World / Raf Van Rooy.
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.
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