With its striking range and penetrating depth,
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences. An invaluable resource for both the advanced scholar and the graduate student.
The online edition gives access to a number of newer entries that are not included in the print edition and also includes corrections.
Contributors are: Monica Azzolini, Irena Backus, Patrick Baker, Jon Balserak, Ann Blair, Jan Bloemendal, David Butterfield, Isabelle Charmantier, John Considine, Alejandro Coroleu, Ricardo da Cunha Lima, Susanna de Beer, Erik De Bom, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Tom Deneire, Ingrid De Smet, Karl Enenkel, Charles Fantazzi, Mathieu Ferrand, Roger Fisher, Philip Ford, Raphaele Garrod, Guido Giglioni, Roger Green, Yasmin Haskell, Hans Helander, Lex Hermans, Thomas Herron, Louise Hill Curth, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brenda Hosington, Erika Jurikova, Craig Kallendorf, Jill Kraye, Andrew Laird, Han Lamers, Marc Laureys, Jeltine Ledegang-Keegstra, Jan Machielsen, Peter Mack, Eric MacPhail, David Marsh, Dustin Mengelkoch, Milena Minkova, David Money, Jennifer Morrish Tunberg, Adam Mosley, Ann Moss, Monique Mund-Dopchie, Colette Nativel, Lodi Nauta, Henk Nellen, Gideon Nisbet, Philipp Nothaft, Katrina Olds, Richard Oosterhoff, Marianne Pade, Jan Papy, David Porter, Johann Ramminger, Jennifer Rampling, Rudolf Rasch, Karen Reeds, Valery Rees, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Stella Revard, Dirk Sacre, Gerald Sandy, Minna Skafte Jensen, Carl Springer, Gorana Stepanić, Harry Stevenson, Jane Stevenson, Andrew Taylor, Nikolaus Thurn, Johannes Trapman, Terence Tunberg, Piotr Urbański, Wiep van Bunge, Harm-Jan van Dam, Demmy Verbeke, Zweder von Martels, Maia Wellington Gahtan, and Paul White.
All those interested in Neo-Latin studies, humanism, the Renaissance, the Classical Tradition, classical philology, intellectual history, and art history.
Philip Ford, Ph.D. (1977), University of Cambridge, was Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at Clare College. He published five monographs, two critical editions, and numerous articles; he was also the editor or co-editor of a staggering fourteen collective volumes, including the Cambridge French Colloquia series. His last monograph is
The Judgment of Palaemon: The Contest between Neo-Latin and Vernacular Poetry in Renaissance France (Brill, 2013). From 2006 to 2009, he served as President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. He died on 8 April 2013.
Jan Bloemendal, Ph.D. (1997) in Classics, Utrecht University studied Classics, Dutch literature and theology. He is a Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Hague. He has published on Neo-Latin and Dutch drama, classical reception, poetics, emblems, and Erasmus. Recently he edited, with Howard B. Norland,
Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013).
Charles Fantazzi, Ph.D. (1964) in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, is Thomas Harriot Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics, East Carolina University. He has published several critical editions and translations of Juan Luis Vives and is translator and editor for the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus.
"The 1,240 pages of
Brill’s Encyclopaedia have entries, by nearly eighty contributors, for almost all conceivable aspects of Neo-Latin language, literature and culture. … It will be an indispensable starting point for future students and scholars, at a time when the vast and largely unexplored continent of early modern Neo-Latin is becoming increasingly accessible." - Philip Hardie,
University of Cambridge, in:
The Times Literary Supplement, 13 February 2015
"The longer essays provide excellent overviews of major topics; the short entries offer basic reference information. Both include bibliographies for further reading. Anyone interested in the Latin language, early modern history and literature, classical studies, book history, theology, or legal history will find this an indispensable reference work. Summing up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty."- Fred W. Jenkins,
University of Dayton, Ohio, in:
CHOICE, Vol. 52, No. 2 (October 2014)
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is a marvel. A collaborative reference work featuring contributions from seventy-nine different scholars, it manages both to provide an overview of the complex (and to our minds, frequently alien) world of Latin culture and scholarship from the Renaissance down to the present day, and to create a repository of historical, contextual, and literary research that will shape the direction of international Neo-Latin studies for the foreseeable future. […] What has been created by the editors is nothing short of the defining work of a field in rude health, and a marker that will direct the future of the discipline." - Steven J. Reid,
University of Glasgow, in:
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 625-627
"The amount of information brought together here on a vast breadth of subjects over long periods of history is prodigious. […] what is presented here is information and scholarship of a very high value across a very wide range of disciplines." - Stuart James, formerly University Librarian,
University of Paisley, UK, in:
Reference Reviews, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2015), pp. 25-26
"a monumental achievement … In an age of numerous handbooks and encyclopedias of questionable value, this contribution to the field of Neo-Latin is an outstanding resource for both students and scholars." - John T. Slotemaker,
Fairfield University, in:
Religious Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2015), pp. 86-87
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World represents a substantial and substantive publication. Those new to the vibrant and vital world of neo-Latin culture will find it an encouraging and accessible starting point for an array of subjects. For more hardened scholars, it will serve as a ready and practical source of reference." - Patrick J. Murray,
University of Glasgow, in:
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 444-446
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is a splendid resource and will be of enormous benefit to everyone working in this field, as well as—perhaps even more so—to many students and scholars of the Renaissance and early modern period who do not consider themselves Neo-Latinists. Immediately upon publication it has become the inevitable starting-point for any fresh project, and an essential purchase for research libraries." - Victoria Moul,
King’s College, London, in:
Neo-Latin News, Vol. 63, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall-Winter 2015), pp. 199-203
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is an essential reference work for anyone interested in discovering how the Latin language continued to be an important medium for intellectual treatises, creative writing, and cultural transmission throughout Europe and beyond in the centuries since Petrarch. Sixty-six large survey articles offer fresh perspectives on a wide range of topics, including conversational Latin, women’s education, and Latin law. More than twice as many shorter entries focus on diverse subjects such as major writers, Latin literature written in various countries, centers of printing and publishing, and the pioneering work done by modern scholars in what was then the emerging field of Neo-Latin Studies. The encyclopaedia continues the Neo-Latin tradition of international collaboration, scholarship, and publishing." - Anne-Marie Lewis,
York University, Canada / President, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
"Ein monumentales Unternehmen […]. Die Vielfalt der präsentierten Ansätze [ist] beeindruckend, der ambitionierte Versuch, in Quer- und Längsschnitten die Welt des Neu-Lateins möglichst vollständig zu erfassen, ist rundum geglückt. Viele Themenbereiche laden ein zum Nachschlagen, Staunen und Schmökern, sie machen neugierig auf bislang wenig erforschte oder gar neu zu entdeckende Wissenskontinente. Studierenden, Forschern und wißbegierigen Lesern aller Arten bieten die kürzeren, essayistischen Texte ebenso wie die umfangreichen Abhandlungen konkrete Fakten, präzise Entwürfe und reichlich Gedankenfutter." - Elisabeth Stein,
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, in:
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Jg. 45 (2016), pp. 28-29
Preface
Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi, Craig Kallendorf
About the Authors
List of Illustrations
MACROPAEDIA
LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
From Mediaeval Latin to Neo-Latin
Marianne Pade Neo-Latin: Character and Development
Johann Ramminger On Neologisms in Neo-Latin
Hans Helander Neo-Latin and Renaissance Schools
Peter Mack Neo-Latin Prosody and Versification
Philip J. Ford Conversational Latin to 1650
Terence Tunberg Conversational Latin: 1650 to the Present
Milena Minkova Women’s Education
Jane Stevenson Revival of Classical Texts
Charles Fantazzi Hellenism
Gerald Sandy Translation and Neo-Latin
Brenda M. Hosington Imitation, Emulation, Ciceronianism, Anti-Ciceronianism
Charles Fantazzi Neo-Latin Prose Style (from Petrarch to c. 1650)
Terence Tunberg Pronunciation of Latin
Dirk Sacré
LATIN AND PRINTING
Humanist Printers
Paul White Philology: Editions and Editorial Practices in the Early Modern Period
Jan Bloemendal and Henk J.M. Nellen The Neo-Latin Commentary
Karl A. E. Enenkel Textual Transaction and Transformation in the Renaissance Printed Book
Andrew Taylor Commonplace Books
Ann Moss Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
John Considine Fifteenth-Century Humanist Manuscript Production
Dustin Mengelkoch
LATIN AND THE VERNACULAR
Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: Prose
Tom Deneire Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: Poetry
Nikolaus Thurn
NEO-LATIN LITERATURE
Neo-Latin Literary Genres and the Classical Tradition: Adaptation and Inventions
Jan Bloemendal Neo-Latin Fiction
Jennifer Morrish Tunberg Neo-Latin Prose Satire
David A. Porter Letters
Jeanine De Landtsheer Neo-Latin ‘Essays’: An Absent Genre that is Omnipresent
Jan Papy The Theory and Practice of History in Neo-Latin Literature
Marc Laureys Neo-Latin Rhetoric 1380-1620 [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Peter Mack Epigrams—The Classical Tradition
Gideon Nisbet Elegiac Poetry
Susanna de Beer Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry in the Renaissance
Stella P. Revard Satire
David Marsh Pastoral
David Marsh The Classification of Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Yasmin Haskell The Neo-Latin Epic
Craig Kallendorf Poetic Psalm Paraphrases
Roger P. H. Green Neo-Latin Drama
Jan Bloemendal Neo-Latin Erotic and Pornographic Literature (c. 1400-c. 1700)
Karl A. E. Enenkel
LATIN AND THE ARTS
Classicising the Unclassical: The Challenge of Music Theory
Leofranc Holford-Strevens Latin Words to Music
Rudolf Rasch Neo-Latin and the Visual Arts in Italy
Maia Wellington Gahtan Neo-Latin and the Plastic Arts in Northern Europe
Colette Nativel Architecture
Lex Hermans
LATIN AND PHILOSOPHY
Aristotelianism and Scholasticism
Raphaele Garrod Ficino and Neo-Platonism
Valery Rees Epicureanism and the Other Hellenistic Philosophies
Jill Kraye Political Philosophy
Erik De Bom Early Modern Philosophical Systems
Wiep van Bunge
LATIN AND THE SCIENCES
Astronomy and Astrology
Monica Azzolini and Adam Mosley Medicine
Guido Giglioni Neo-Latin Mathematics
Richard J. Oosterhoff From Alchemy to Chemistry
Jennifer M. Rampling
LATIN AND THE CHURCH
Theological Discourse
Jon Balserak Patristics
Irena Backus The Reformation
Carl P. E. Springer Counter-Reformation
Jan Machielsen The Passion(s) of Jesuit Latin
Yasmin Haskell
LATIN AND LAW
Law Latin and English Law
Roger S. Fisher
LATIN AND THE NEW WORLD
Cosmography and Exploration
Monique Mund-Dopchie Latin in Latin America
Andrew Laird Neo-Latin in North America
Ann Blair Asia
Zweder von Martels
NEO-LATIN: THE TWILIGHT YEARS
Neo-Latin Verse in the Twilight Years (1700-Present)
David Money Neo-Latin Prose in the Twilight Years (1700-Present)
Dirk Sacré
HISTORY OF NEO-LATIN STUDIES
History of Neo-Latin Studies
Demmy Verbeke
MICROPAEDIA
Adversaria, Annotationes, Miscellanea
Harm-Jan van Dam Alberti, Leon Battista
Lex Hermans Architectural Theory and the Church
Lex Hermans Atheism [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Eric MacPhail Bembo, Pietro
Charles Fantazzi Beza, Theodorus
Jeltine L. R. Ledegang-Keegstra Bibliothecae (Hispanic)
Andrew Laird Book Hunting
Dustin Mengelkoch Borrowings from Ancient Geography: Transmission or Treason
Monique Mund-Dopchie Botany
Karen Reeds and Isabelle Charmantier Bruni—De interpretatione recta
Marianne Pade Bude, Guillaume
Gerald Sandy Calvin, John
Carl P. E. Springer Chronology [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Coins and Medals
Dirk Sacre Collective Biography [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Patrick Baker Commentaries on the Bible and Patristics
Jon Balserak Commonplace Books: Major Items in Print
Ann Moss Controversy of the Indies
Andrew Laird The Curriculum of the College de Guyenne (1583)
Raphaele Garrod Descartes, René
Ann Blair Diplomacy and Court Culture
Erik De Bom Editing Neo-Latin texts: Editorial Principles; Spelling and Punctuation
Tom Deneire Education—Desiderius Erasmus
Charles Fantazzi Education—Juan Luis Vives
Charles Fantazzi Educational Treatises from Italy
Craig Kallendorf Ekphrasis (and Art)
Maia Wellington Gahtan Emblems
Karl A. E. Enenkel Epigrams and Epitaphs (on Art and Artists)
Maia Wellington Gahtan Erasmus—The Adagia, and the Assimilation of the Literary Culture of Classical Antiquity
Andrew Taylor Erasmus—The Praise of Folly
Johannes Trapman Erasmus—Theological Writings
Carl P. E. Springer Ficino, Marsilio
Valery Rees Gassendi, Pierre
Irena Backus Gessner, Conrad
Ann Blair Gradus ad Parnassum and Other Verse Composition Manuals
David J. Butterfield The Greek Anthology
Harry Stevenson The Greek Diaspora and Neo-Latin Literature (Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Han Lamers Humanist Centres—Leiden and Philology
Harm-Jan van Dam Humanist Centres—Naples
Han Lamers Humanistic Script
Dustin Mengelkoch Indigenous American Latinists
Andrew Laird Inscriptions
Dirk Sacre Jesuit Georgic Poetry
Yasmin Haskell The Jesuit Ratio studiorum (1599 Edition): Prescribed Texts: Grammar, the Humanities, Rhetoric, and Philosophy
Raphaele Garrod The Jesuit Ratio studiorum and its Variants: Textbooks from the College of La Fleche for Classes of Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Humanities (1603-1702)
Raphaele Garrod Lascaris, Janus
Gerald Sandy Latin and the Social Media
David J. Butterfield Latin and the Enlightenment
Yasmin Haskell Latin Language and Style as an Instrument of Political and Cultural Ideology
Marc Laureys Latin Translations from the Vernacular in Early Modern Science
Ann Blair Latin Translations of Place Names Unknown in the Ancient World
Monique Mund-Dopchie Latin Travel Journals and Guidebooks
Monique Mund-Dopchie Latin Vocabulary for New World Phenomena
Monique Mund-Dopchie Letter Collections
Jeanine De Landtsheer Letters of Dedication
Demmy Verbeke and Jeanine De Landtsheer Letter-Writing Manuals
Jeanine De Landtsheer Lucretius—Editions and Commentaries
Jill Kraye Luther, Martin
Carl P. E. Springer Lutheran Latin Education
Carl P. E. Springer Manuals on Note-Taking (ars excerpendi)
Ann Blair Medical Didactic Poetry
Yasmin Haskell Melanchthon, Philipp
Carl P. E. Springer More, Thomas
Andrew Taylor Neo-Latin and Vernacular Influences in Prose Writing
Tom Deneire Neo-Latin Book Series
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Forgeries [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Katrina B. Olds Neo-Latin Grammars—Guarino of Verona’s Regulae grammaticales
Marianne Pade Neo-Latin Grammars—Niccolo Perotti’s Rudimenta grammatices
Marianne Pade Neo-Latin Journals
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Literature—The Balkans (Croatia)
Gorana Stepanić Neo-Latin Literature—Bohemia
Erika Jurikova Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: The Long Sixteenth Century
David A. Porter Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: Later Centuries
David A. Porter Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Sixteenth Century: Literature
Mathieu Ferrand Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Sixteenth Century: Contexts
Jon Balserak Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Literature
Ingrid A. R. De Smet Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Contexts
Jon Balserak Neo-Latin Literature—The German Regions
Nikolaus Thurn Neo-Latin Literature—Hungary: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Valery Rees Neo-Latin Literature—Hungary: The Seventeenth Century and Beyond
Valery Rees Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Age of Petrarch
Craig Kallendorf Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Quattrocento
Craig Kallendorf Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Cinquecento
Charles Fantazzi Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: Fascism (1922-1943)
Han Lamers, Bettina L. Reitz-Joosse, and Dirk Sacre Neo-Latin Literature—The Low Countries
Tom Deneire Neo-Latin Literature—The Nordic Countries
Minna Skafte Jensen Neo-Latin Literature—The Ottoman Empire
Zweder von Martels Neo-Latin Literature—Poland
Piotr Urbański Neo-Latin Literature—Portugal
Ricardo da Cunha Lima Neo-Latin Literature—Slovakia
Erika Jurikova Neo-Latin Literature—Spain: The Long Sixteenth Century
Alejandro Coroleu Neo-Latin Literature—Spain: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Alejandro Coroleu Neo-Latin Online
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Societies
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Supplements to Classical Latin Works
Craig Kallendorf New World: Epic Writing
Andrew Laird Orders of Architecture
Lex Hermans Orthography of Neo-Latin
Milena Minkova Pasquinades
David Marsh Patronage
Susanna de Beer Perotti’s Cornu copiae
Marianne Pade Petrarca, Francesco
Karl A. E. Enenkel Philology—France
Gerald Sandy Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Henry De Vocht
Demmy Verbeke Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Jozef IJsewijn
Demmy Verbeke Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Paul Oskar Kristeller
Demmy Verbeke Pliny (On Art)
Maia Wellington Gahtan Poetic Genres—The Cento: Poetry
Jane Stevenson Poetic Genres—The Cento: Theory
Tom Deneire Poetic Genres—Epistles
David A. Porter Poetic Genres—Heroides
Paul White Poetic Genres—Occasional Poetry: Practice
Susanna de Beer Poetic Genres—Occasional Poetry: Theory
Ingrid A. R. De Smet Poetics—Scaliger, Vida, Pontanus, Vossius
David A. Porter Praise and Blame
Marc Laureys Print and Pedagogy
Andrew Taylor Printing Centres—Basel: Johannes Frobenius, Johannes Amerbach, and Others
Paul White Printing Centres—Estienne Family
Paul White Printing Centres—Geneva: Henri II Estienne, Jean Crespin, and Others
Paul White Printing Centres—The Officina Plantiniana
Jeanine De Landtsheer Printing Centres—Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, Robert I Estienne, and Others
Paul White Printing Centres—Strasbourg
Paul White Printing Centres—Venice: Aldus Manutius and the Aldine Press
Andrew Taylor Psychiatry—Neo-Latin Sources for its History
Yasmin Haskell Rhetoric in Architecture
Lex Hermans Roman Law and bonae litterae
Gerald Sandy School Colloquia
Tom Deneire Scribes
Dustin Mengelkoch Secundus, Joannes
Jane Stevenson Seneca’s Philosophical Works—Editions and Commentaries
Jill Kraye Sermons
Jon Balserak Shakespeare, William [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Thomas L. Herron Spinoza
Guido Giglioni The Strasbourg Gymnasium (1543 Edition)—Prescribed Texts: Grammar, the Humanities, and Rhetoric
Raphaele Garrod Swedenborg, Emanuel
Hans Helander Terence as a School Text: Commentaries
Jan Bloemendal Thou, Jacques Auguste de
Ingrid A. R. De Smet Translation as a Source for Neologisms
Marianne Pade Travel Journals and Guidebooks in Latin
Monique Mund-Dopchie The Typography of Renaissance Humanism
Andrew Taylor Valla, Lorenzo
Lodi Nauta Valla’s Elegantiae linguae Latinae
Marianne Pade Virgilianism
Craig Kallendorf Vitruvianism
Lex Hermans Women in Renaissance England and Neo-Latin Translation
Brenda M. Hosington Women Prodigies—Anna Maria van Schurman, Elena Piscopia, and Others
Jane Stevenson Women Writers in the Elizabethan Period
Jane Steve
With its striking range and penetrating depth,
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences. An invaluable resource for both the advanced scholar and the graduate student.
The online edition gives access to a number of newer entries that are not included in the print edition and also includes corrections.
Contributors are: Monica Azzolini, Irena Backus, Patrick Baker, Jon Balserak, Ann Blair, Jan Bloemendal, David Butterfield, Isabelle Charmantier, John Considine, Alejandro Coroleu, Ricardo da Cunha Lima, Susanna de Beer, Erik De Bom, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Tom Deneire, Ingrid De Smet, Karl Enenkel, Charles Fantazzi, Mathieu Ferrand, Roger Fisher, Philip Ford, Raphaele Garrod, Guido Giglioni, Roger Green, Yasmin Haskell, Hans Helander, Lex Hermans, Thomas Herron, Louise Hill Curth, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brenda Hosington, Erika Jurikova, Craig Kallendorf, Jill Kraye, Andrew Laird, Han Lamers, Marc Laureys, Jeltine Ledegang-Keegstra, Jan Machielsen, Peter Mack, Eric MacPhail, David Marsh, Dustin Mengelkoch, Milena Minkova, David Money, Jennifer Morrish Tunberg, Adam Mosley, Ann Moss, Monique Mund-Dopchie, Colette Nativel, Lodi Nauta, Henk Nellen, Gideon Nisbet, Philipp Nothaft, Katrina Olds, Richard Oosterhoff, Marianne Pade, Jan Papy, David Porter, Johann Ramminger, Jennifer Rampling, Rudolf Rasch, Karen Reeds, Valery Rees, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Stella Revard, Dirk Sacre, Gerald Sandy, Minna Skafte Jensen, Carl Springer, Gorana Stepanić, Harry Stevenson, Jane Stevenson, Andrew Taylor, Nikolaus Thurn, Johannes Trapman, Terence Tunberg, Piotr Urbański, Wiep van Bunge, Harm-Jan van Dam, Demmy Verbeke, Zweder von Martels, Maia Wellington Gahtan, and Paul White.
All those interested in Neo-Latin studies, humanism, the Renaissance, the Classical Tradition, classical philology, intellectual history, and art history.
Philip Ford, Ph.D. (1977), University of Cambridge, was Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at Clare College. He published five monographs, two critical editions, and numerous articles; he was also the editor or co-editor of a staggering fourteen collective volumes, including the Cambridge French Colloquia series. His last monograph is
The Judgment of Palaemon: The Contest between Neo-Latin and Vernacular Poetry in Renaissance France (Brill, 2013). From 2006 to 2009, he served as President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. He died on 8 April 2013.
Jan Bloemendal, Ph.D. (1997) in Classics, Utrecht University studied Classics, Dutch literature and theology. He is a Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Hague. He has published on Neo-Latin and Dutch drama, classical reception, poetics, emblems, and Erasmus. Recently he edited, with Howard B. Norland,
Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013).
Charles Fantazzi, Ph.D. (1964) in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, is Thomas Harriot Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics, East Carolina University. He has published several critical editions and translations of Juan Luis Vives and is translator and editor for the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus.
"The 1,240 pages of
Brill’s Encyclopaedia have entries, by nearly eighty contributors, for almost all conceivable aspects of Neo-Latin language, literature and culture. … It will be an indispensable starting point for future students and scholars, at a time when the vast and largely unexplored continent of early modern Neo-Latin is becoming increasingly accessible." - Philip Hardie,
University of Cambridge, in:
The Times Literary Supplement, 13 February 2015
"The longer essays provide excellent overviews of major topics; the short entries offer basic reference information. Both include bibliographies for further reading. Anyone interested in the Latin language, early modern history and literature, classical studies, book history, theology, or legal history will find this an indispensable reference work. Summing up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty."- Fred W. Jenkins,
University of Dayton, Ohio, in:
CHOICE, Vol. 52, No. 2 (October 2014)
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is a marvel. A collaborative reference work featuring contributions from seventy-nine different scholars, it manages both to provide an overview of the complex (and to our minds, frequently alien) world of Latin culture and scholarship from the Renaissance down to the present day, and to create a repository of historical, contextual, and literary research that will shape the direction of international Neo-Latin studies for the foreseeable future. […] What has been created by the editors is nothing short of the defining work of a field in rude health, and a marker that will direct the future of the discipline." - Steven J. Reid,
University of Glasgow, in:
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 625-627
"The amount of information brought together here on a vast breadth of subjects over long periods of history is prodigious. […] what is presented here is information and scholarship of a very high value across a very wide range of disciplines." - Stuart James, formerly University Librarian,
University of Paisley, UK, in:
Reference Reviews, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2015), pp. 25-26
"a monumental achievement … In an age of numerous handbooks and encyclopedias of questionable value, this contribution to the field of Neo-Latin is an outstanding resource for both students and scholars." - John T. Slotemaker,
Fairfield University, in:
Religious Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2015), pp. 86-87
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World represents a substantial and substantive publication. Those new to the vibrant and vital world of neo-Latin culture will find it an encouraging and accessible starting point for an array of subjects. For more hardened scholars, it will serve as a ready and practical source of reference." - Patrick J. Murray,
University of Glasgow, in:
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 444-446
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is a splendid resource and will be of enormous benefit to everyone working in this field, as well as—perhaps even more so—to many students and scholars of the Renaissance and early modern period who do not consider themselves Neo-Latinists. Immediately upon publication it has become the inevitable starting-point for any fresh project, and an essential purchase for research libraries." - Victoria Moul,
King’s College, London, in:
Neo-Latin News, Vol. 63, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall-Winter 2015), pp. 199-203
"
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is an essential reference work for anyone interested in discovering how the Latin language continued to be an important medium for intellectual treatises, creative writing, and cultural transmission throughout Europe and beyond in the centuries since Petrarch. Sixty-six large survey articles offer fresh perspectives on a wide range of topics, including conversational Latin, women’s education, and Latin law. More than twice as many shorter entries focus on diverse subjects such as major writers, Latin literature written in various countries, centers of printing and publishing, and the pioneering work done by modern scholars in what was then the emerging field of Neo-Latin Studies. The encyclopaedia continues the Neo-Latin tradition of international collaboration, scholarship, and publishing." - Anne-Marie Lewis,
York University, Canada / President, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
"Ein monumentales Unternehmen […]. Die Vielfalt der präsentierten Ansätze [ist] beeindruckend, der ambitionierte Versuch, in Quer- und Längsschnitten die Welt des Neu-Lateins möglichst vollständig zu erfassen, ist rundum geglückt. Viele Themenbereiche laden ein zum Nachschlagen, Staunen und Schmökern, sie machen neugierig auf bislang wenig erforschte oder gar neu zu entdeckende Wissenskontinente. Studierenden, Forschern und wißbegierigen Lesern aller Arten bieten die kürzeren, essayistischen Texte ebenso wie die umfangreichen Abhandlungen konkrete Fakten, präzise Entwürfe und reichlich Gedankenfutter." - Elisabeth Stein,
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, in:
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Jg. 45 (2016), pp. 28-29
Preface
Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi, Craig Kallendorf
About the Authors
List of Illustrations
MACROPAEDIA
LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
From Mediaeval Latin to Neo-Latin
Marianne Pade Neo-Latin: Character and Development
Johann Ramminger On Neologisms in Neo-Latin
Hans Helander Neo-Latin and Renaissance Schools
Peter Mack Neo-Latin Prosody and Versification
Philip J. Ford Conversational Latin to 1650
Terence Tunberg Conversational Latin: 1650 to the Present
Milena Minkova Women’s Education
Jane Stevenson Revival of Classical Texts
Charles Fantazzi Hellenism
Gerald Sandy Translation and Neo-Latin
Brenda M. Hosington Imitation, Emulation, Ciceronianism, Anti-Ciceronianism
Charles Fantazzi Neo-Latin Prose Style (from Petrarch to c. 1650)
Terence Tunberg Pronunciation of Latin
Dirk Sacré
LATIN AND PRINTING
Humanist Printers
Paul White Philology: Editions and Editorial Practices in the Early Modern Period
Jan Bloemendal and Henk J.M. Nellen The Neo-Latin Commentary
Karl A. E. Enenkel Textual Transaction and Transformation in the Renaissance Printed Book
Andrew Taylor Commonplace Books
Ann Moss Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
John Considine Fifteenth-Century Humanist Manuscript Production
Dustin Mengelkoch
LATIN AND THE VERNACULAR
Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: Prose
Tom Deneire Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: Poetry
Nikolaus Thurn
NEO-LATIN LITERATURE
Neo-Latin Literary Genres and the Classical Tradition: Adaptation and Inventions
Jan Bloemendal Neo-Latin Fiction
Jennifer Morrish Tunberg Neo-Latin Prose Satire
David A. Porter Letters
Jeanine De Landtsheer Neo-Latin ‘Essays’: An Absent Genre that is Omnipresent
Jan Papy The Theory and Practice of History in Neo-Latin Literature
Marc Laureys Neo-Latin Rhetoric 1380-1620 [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Peter Mack Epigrams—The Classical Tradition
Gideon Nisbet Elegiac Poetry
Susanna de Beer Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry in the Renaissance
Stella P. Revard Satire
David Marsh Pastoral
David Marsh The Classification of Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Yasmin Haskell The Neo-Latin Epic
Craig Kallendorf Poetic Psalm Paraphrases
Roger P. H. Green Neo-Latin Drama
Jan Bloemendal Neo-Latin Erotic and Pornographic Literature (c. 1400-c. 1700)
Karl A. E. Enenkel
LATIN AND THE ARTS
Classicising the Unclassical: The Challenge of Music Theory
Leofranc Holford-Strevens Latin Words to Music
Rudolf Rasch Neo-Latin and the Visual Arts in Italy
Maia Wellington Gahtan Neo-Latin and the Plastic Arts in Northern Europe
Colette Nativel Architecture
Lex Hermans
LATIN AND PHILOSOPHY
Aristotelianism and Scholasticism
Raphaele Garrod Ficino and Neo-Platonism
Valery Rees Epicureanism and the Other Hellenistic Philosophies
Jill Kraye Political Philosophy
Erik De Bom Early Modern Philosophical Systems
Wiep van Bunge
LATIN AND THE SCIENCES
Astronomy and Astrology
Monica Azzolini and Adam Mosley Medicine
Guido Giglioni Neo-Latin Mathematics
Richard J. Oosterhoff From Alchemy to Chemistry
Jennifer M. Rampling
LATIN AND THE CHURCH
Theological Discourse
Jon Balserak Patristics
Irena Backus The Reformation
Carl P. E. Springer Counter-Reformation
Jan Machielsen The Passion(s) of Jesuit Latin
Yasmin Haskell
LATIN AND LAW
Law Latin and English Law
Roger S. Fisher
LATIN AND THE NEW WORLD
Cosmography and Exploration
Monique Mund-Dopchie Latin in Latin America
Andrew Laird Neo-Latin in North America
Ann Blair Asia
Zweder von Martels
NEO-LATIN: THE TWILIGHT YEARS
Neo-Latin Verse in the Twilight Years (1700-Present)
David Money Neo-Latin Prose in the Twilight Years (1700-Present)
Dirk Sacré
HISTORY OF NEO-LATIN STUDIES
History of Neo-Latin Studies
Demmy Verbeke
MICROPAEDIA
Adversaria, Annotationes, Miscellanea
Harm-Jan van Dam Alberti, Leon Battista
Lex Hermans Architectural Theory and the Church
Lex Hermans Atheism [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Eric MacPhail Bembo, Pietro
Charles Fantazzi Beza, Theodorus
Jeltine L. R. Ledegang-Keegstra Bibliothecae (Hispanic)
Andrew Laird Book Hunting
Dustin Mengelkoch Borrowings from Ancient Geography: Transmission or Treason
Monique Mund-Dopchie Botany
Karen Reeds and Isabelle Charmantier Bruni—De interpretatione recta
Marianne Pade Bude, Guillaume
Gerald Sandy Calvin, John
Carl P. E. Springer Chronology [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Coins and Medals
Dirk Sacre Collective Biography [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Patrick Baker Commentaries on the Bible and Patristics
Jon Balserak Commonplace Books: Major Items in Print
Ann Moss Controversy of the Indies
Andrew Laird The Curriculum of the College de Guyenne (1583)
Raphaele Garrod Descartes, René
Ann Blair Diplomacy and Court Culture
Erik De Bom Editing Neo-Latin texts: Editorial Principles; Spelling and Punctuation
Tom Deneire Education—Desiderius Erasmus
Charles Fantazzi Education—Juan Luis Vives
Charles Fantazzi Educational Treatises from Italy
Craig Kallendorf Ekphrasis (and Art)
Maia Wellington Gahtan Emblems
Karl A. E. Enenkel Epigrams and Epitaphs (on Art and Artists)
Maia Wellington Gahtan Erasmus—The Adagia, and the Assimilation of the Literary Culture of Classical Antiquity
Andrew Taylor Erasmus—The Praise of Folly
Johannes Trapman Erasmus—Theological Writings
Carl P. E. Springer Ficino, Marsilio
Valery Rees Gassendi, Pierre
Irena Backus Gessner, Conrad
Ann Blair Gradus ad Parnassum and Other Verse Composition Manuals
David J. Butterfield The Greek Anthology
Harry Stevenson The Greek Diaspora and Neo-Latin Literature (Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Han Lamers Humanist Centres—Leiden and Philology
Harm-Jan van Dam Humanist Centres—Naples
Han Lamers Humanistic Script
Dustin Mengelkoch Indigenous American Latinists
Andrew Laird Inscriptions
Dirk Sacre Jesuit Georgic Poetry
Yasmin Haskell The Jesuit Ratio studiorum (1599 Edition): Prescribed Texts: Grammar, the Humanities, Rhetoric, and Philosophy
Raphaele Garrod The Jesuit Ratio studiorum and its Variants: Textbooks from the College of La Fleche for Classes of Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Humanities (1603-1702)
Raphaele Garrod Lascaris, Janus
Gerald Sandy Latin and the Social Media
David J. Butterfield Latin and the Enlightenment
Yasmin Haskell Latin Language and Style as an Instrument of Political and Cultural Ideology
Marc Laureys Latin Translations from the Vernacular in Early Modern Science
Ann Blair Latin Translations of Place Names Unknown in the Ancient World
Monique Mund-Dopchie Latin Travel Journals and Guidebooks
Monique Mund-Dopchie Latin Vocabulary for New World Phenomena
Monique Mund-Dopchie Letter Collections
Jeanine De Landtsheer Letters of Dedication
Demmy Verbeke and Jeanine De Landtsheer Letter-Writing Manuals
Jeanine De Landtsheer Lucretius—Editions and Commentaries
Jill Kraye Luther, Martin
Carl P. E. Springer Lutheran Latin Education
Carl P. E. Springer Manuals on Note-Taking (ars excerpendi)
Ann Blair Medical Didactic Poetry
Yasmin Haskell Melanchthon, Philipp
Carl P. E. Springer More, Thomas
Andrew Taylor Neo-Latin and Vernacular Influences in Prose Writing
Tom Deneire Neo-Latin Book Series
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Forgeries [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Katrina B. Olds Neo-Latin Grammars—Guarino of Verona’s Regulae grammaticales
Marianne Pade Neo-Latin Grammars—Niccolo Perotti’s Rudimenta grammatices
Marianne Pade Neo-Latin Journals
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Literature—The Balkans (Croatia)
Gorana Stepanić Neo-Latin Literature—Bohemia
Erika Jurikova Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: The Long Sixteenth Century
David A. Porter Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: Later Centuries
David A. Porter Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Sixteenth Century: Literature
Mathieu Ferrand Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Sixteenth Century: Contexts
Jon Balserak Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Literature
Ingrid A. R. De Smet Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Contexts
Jon Balserak Neo-Latin Literature—The German Regions
Nikolaus Thurn Neo-Latin Literature—Hungary: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Valery Rees Neo-Latin Literature—Hungary: The Seventeenth Century and Beyond
Valery Rees Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Age of Petrarch
Craig Kallendorf Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Quattrocento
Craig Kallendorf Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Cinquecento
Charles Fantazzi Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: Fascism (1922-1943)
Han Lamers, Bettina L. Reitz-Joosse, and Dirk Sacre Neo-Latin Literature—The Low Countries
Tom Deneire Neo-Latin Literature—The Nordic Countries
Minna Skafte Jensen Neo-Latin Literature—The Ottoman Empire
Zweder von Martels Neo-Latin Literature—Poland
Piotr Urbański Neo-Latin Literature—Portugal
Ricardo da Cunha Lima Neo-Latin Literature—Slovakia
Erika Jurikova Neo-Latin Literature—Spain: The Long Sixteenth Century
Alejandro Coroleu Neo-Latin Literature—Spain: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Alejandro Coroleu Neo-Latin Online
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Societies
Demmy Verbeke Neo-Latin Supplements to Classical Latin Works
Craig Kallendorf New World: Epic Writing
Andrew Laird Orders of Architecture
Lex Hermans Orthography of Neo-Latin
Milena Minkova Pasquinades
David Marsh Patronage
Susanna de Beer Perotti’s Cornu copiae
Marianne Pade Petrarca, Francesco
Karl A. E. Enenkel Philology—France
Gerald Sandy Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Henry De Vocht
Demmy Verbeke Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Jozef IJsewijn
Demmy Verbeke Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Paul Oskar Kristeller
Demmy Verbeke Pliny (On Art)
Maia Wellington Gahtan Poetic Genres—The Cento: Poetry
Jane Stevenson Poetic Genres—The Cento: Theory
Tom Deneire Poetic Genres—Epistles
David A. Porter Poetic Genres—Heroides
Paul White Poetic Genres—Occasional Poetry: Practice
Susanna de Beer Poetic Genres—Occasional Poetry: Theory
Ingrid A. R. De Smet Poetics—Scaliger, Vida, Pontanus, Vossius
David A. Porter Praise and Blame
Marc Laureys Print and Pedagogy
Andrew Taylor Printing Centres—Basel: Johannes Frobenius, Johannes Amerbach, and Others
Paul White Printing Centres—Estienne Family
Paul White Printing Centres—Geneva: Henri II Estienne, Jean Crespin, and Others
Paul White Printing Centres—The Officina Plantiniana
Jeanine De Landtsheer Printing Centres—Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, Robert I Estienne, and Others
Paul White Printing Centres—Strasbourg
Paul White Printing Centres—Venice: Aldus Manutius and the Aldine Press
Andrew Taylor Psychiatry—Neo-Latin Sources for its History
Yasmin Haskell Rhetoric in Architecture
Lex Hermans Roman Law and bonae litterae
Gerald Sandy School Colloquia
Tom Deneire Scribes
Dustin Mengelkoch Secundus, Joannes
Jane Stevenson Seneca’s Philosophical Works—Editions and Commentaries
Jill Kraye Sermons
Jon Balserak Shakespeare, William [NOT IN PRINT EDITION]
Thomas L. Herron Spinoza
Guido Giglioni The Strasbourg Gymnasium (1543 Edition)—Prescribed Texts: Grammar, the Humanities, and Rhetoric
Raphaele Garrod Swedenborg, Emanuel
Hans Helander Terence as a School Text: Commentaries
Jan Bloemendal Thou, Jacques Auguste de
Ingrid A. R. De Smet Translation as a Source for Neologisms
Marianne Pade Travel Journals and Guidebooks in Latin
Monique Mund-Dopchie The Typography of Renaissance Humanism
Andrew Taylor Valla, Lorenzo
Lodi Nauta Valla’s Elegantiae linguae Latinae
Marianne Pade Virgilianism
Craig Kallendorf Vitruvianism
Lex Hermans Women in Renaissance England and Neo-Latin Translation
Brenda M. Hosington Women Prodigies—Anna Maria van Schurman, Elena Piscopia, and Others
Jane Stevenson Women Writers in the Elizabethan Period
Jane Steve