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Book SynopsisWhen Greece Flew Across the Alps offers a reconstruction of the status of Greek studies in the vast territory lying between Spain and Russia and Austria and the Scandinavian Peninsula, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although closely related to the revival of Greek studies in fifteenth-century Italy, European Hellenism acquired distinctive peculiarities due to the influence of the Reformation, the advent and spread of printing, and initiatives taken by individuals or institutions. By analyzing this important aspect of the reception of the Classics, this volume contributes to a better understanding of early modern European culture. Contributors: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Graecia transvolavit Alpes Editor’s Note Contributors 1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men Inmaculada Pérez Martín 2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budé’s Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540 Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé’s Collection of Greek Letters Gianmario Cattaneo 4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape Natasha Constantinidou 5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy 6 Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century) Christian Gastgeber 7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania Iulian Mihai Damian 8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg Marianne Pade 9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon’s Greek Grammar Federica Ciccolella 10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century Tua Korhonen 11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden Johanna Akujärvi 12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia Ovanes Akopyan Bibliography Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials Index of Personal Names
