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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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Contents Acknowledgments Conventions Abstract Keywords  PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE  1 Introduction  2 Preliminaries  PART 2: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES  3 The Bird’s Eye: Toward a Long History of Classical Bilingualism  4 The Worm’s Eye: Focused Approaches to Texts and Contexts  5 Outlook: Pulling the Trojan Horse into Neo-Latin Studies References Index

New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World: The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 13/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9789004547872, 978-9004547872
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Contents Acknowledgments Conventions Abstract Keywords  PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE  1 Introduction  2 Preliminaries  PART 2: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES  3 The Bird’s Eye: Toward a Long History of Classical Bilingualism  4 The Worm’s Eye: Focused Approaches to Texts and Contexts  5 Outlook: Pulling the Trojan Horse into Neo-Latin Studies References Index

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