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When Greece Flew across the Alps
The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 336
Editor:
When 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.ââ
Contributors: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez MartÃn, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy.
Contributors: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez MartÃn, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy.
Federica Ciccolella is Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. She has published on Byzantine poetry and metrics, late antique epistolography, and the study of Greek in the Renaissance (Donati Graeci, Brill, 2008; Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance, coedited with Luigi Silvano, Brill, 2017).âââ
"This volume will serve as an important sourcebook for anyone looking at the status of Greek studies during the early modern period and within particular areas. It identifies and provides useful information on important humanists during the period, such as Guillaume Budé and Philipp Melanchthon, among others, and documents important Greek manuscripts and printed texts. The essays additionally offer insight into educational practices during the early modern period and how Greek studies were incorporated into humanist education. The volume also adds important insight into the spread of humanism through Europe and the ways that humanists shared knowledge. This collection is an important achievement that should be on the shelves of students and scholars of the European Renaissance." - Jacob Blevins, Sam Houston State University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 1474â1475
Contents
List of Figures
Graecia transvolavit Alpes
Editorâs Note
Contributors
1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men
âInmaculada Pérez MartÃn
2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budéâs Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540
âLuigi-Alberto Sanchi
3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budéâs Collection of Greek Letters
âGianmario Cattaneo
4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape
âNatasha Constantinidou
5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges
âHan 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)
âChristian Gastgeber
7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania
âIulian Mihai Damian
8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg
âMarianne Pade
9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthonâs Greek Grammar
âFederica Ciccolella
10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century
âTua Korhonen
11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden
âJohanna Akujärvi
12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia
âOvanes Akopyan
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials
Index of Personal Names
List of Figures
Graecia transvolavit Alpes
Editorâs Note
Contributors
1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men
âInmaculada Pérez MartÃn
2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budéâs Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540
âLuigi-Alberto Sanchi
3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budéâs Collection of Greek Letters
âGianmario Cattaneo
4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape
âNatasha Constantinidou
5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges
âHan 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)
âChristian Gastgeber
7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania
âIulian Mihai Damian
8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg
âMarianne Pade
9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthonâs Greek Grammar
âFederica Ciccolella
10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century
âTua Korhonen
11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden
âJohanna Akujärvi
12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia
âOvanes Akopyan
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials
Index of Personal Names
All interested in the reception of the Classics, early modern European history, book history, and history of education. Keywords: Reception of the Classics, Greek language, Hellenism, classical literature, education, printing, early modern Europe, Renaissance, Byzantine heritage, Reformation.