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An investigation of modes of receiving and responding to Greek culture in diverse contexts throughout early modern Europe, in order to encourage a more over-arching understanding of the multifaceted phenomenon of early modern Hellenism and its multiple receptions.
Greece Reinvented discusses the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism as the cultural elite of Byzantium, displaced to Italy, constructed it. It explores why and how Byzantine migrants such as Cardinal Bessarion, Ianus Lascaris, and Giovanni Gemisto adopted Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to the heirship of ancient Rome. In Greece Reinvented, Han Lamers shows that being Greek in the diaspora was both blessing and burden, and explores how these migrants’ newfound ‘Greekness’ enabled them to create distinctive positions for themselves while promoting group cohesion. These Greek personas reflected Latin understandings of who the Greeks ‘really’ were but sometimes also undermined Western paradigms. Greece Reinvented reveals some of the cultural tensions that bubble under the surface of the much-studied transmission of Greek learning from Byzantium to Italy.
A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.
TheHistory of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the specific social, cultural and religious contexts involved. Issues discussed include the place of language in education, variation and prestige, and approaches to lexical and grammatical description. The authors of the individual chapters are specialists who have analysed the primary sources and produced original syntheses by exploring the linguistic interests and assumptions of particular cultures in...
A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory
Du Bellay. Chacun a retenu les vers de Joachim, mais qui se souvient de ses glorieux cousins, si connus en leur temps par la rare competence mise dans leurs multiples fonctions? Guillaume, Jean, Martin et Rene Du Bellay, quatre freres au service du roi, promoteurs des valeurs de tolerance et d'humanisme en cette premiere moitie du XVIeme siecle troublee mais feconde en idees nouvelles. Nous les suivons un a un, a travers le Maine, l'Anjou et l'Europe: Guillaume, gentilhomme zele et ambassadeur de Francois Ier, Jean, grand ecclesiastique de l'Eglise gallicane, orateur lettre, successeur de Rene sur la cathedre mancelle, Martin, grand capitaine des chevau-legers du roi, Rene, eveque du Mans, protecteur du naturaliste Pierre Belon comme du savant lettre Jacques Peletier... Claude Dubois-Geoffroy a reussi, en un ouvrage accessible a tous, a livrer la synthese indispensable a tout un chacun desireux de connaitre les artisans de l'Europe de la Renaissance.
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