Neo-Latin Studies: Significance and Prospects

Helander, Hans

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“…121-123;Ostler 2007, 292-301;Stroh 2007, 228-248. 29 One prominent Neo-Latinist, Hans Helander has described the era of chief interest to his discipline as stretching from c. 1400-c. 1800 (Helander 2001;2004). See, however, IJsewijn 1990 and Eichenseer 1999 for examples of Latinists that would like to stretch the Neo-Latin period right up to the present day.…”

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“…Nevertheless, it is remarkable that many learned scholars today are not aware of the existence of this huge treasury. (Helander 2001, 8-9, repeated in Helander 2004 In the latter half of the eighteenth century, French seemed poised to take over the entire World of Learning and become the "new Latin". English has by and large accomplished that feat today.…”

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The use of Latin and the European republic of letters: Change and continuity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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2014

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<p>This article, which is the author’s trial lecture for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor, offers a brief history of the use of Latin among men of learning. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the periods of Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, respectively. In the same timespan the Republic of Letters flourished, a word which connoted a kind of ‘imagined community’ (in Benedict Anderson’s words) which bound together the supporters of the new science. In transgressing confessional, civil, and ideological boundaries Latin offered a peculiar kind of assistance. A text in Latin would signify not merely erudition, but also some sort of neutrality. However much the active use and the passive ability to understand various vernacular languages rose internationally, neither Italian, French, English, or German was received without mixed feelings. Escaping the famous definition of a language as ‘a dialect with an army and a navy’, Latinity proved capable of persisting by means of ‘soft power’ alone. The processes which led to the end of this state of affairs were not one and the same. Italian, which Galilei and the academicians of Florence used, achieved national or regional, rather than international, success. English, cultivated by the Royal Society of London, was undoubtedly comprehensible to many learned, but it was used rarely abroad nevertheless. French, having the Académie Royale des Sciences and the encyclopédistes among its supporters, especially towards the end of the eighteenth century seemed poised to take over the Republic of Letters. German, read by many men of learning in Nordic and Eastern parts of Europe, reeked of vulgarity or even barbarism. That Latin, the victim of nationalism, democratisation, and secularisation, in brief, of European modernity, also served as a vehicle and a midwife for that very same modernity is a lesson well worth bearing in mind.</p>

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The use of Latin and the European republic of letters: Change and continuity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy

2013

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Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

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The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy

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Neo-Latin Studies: Significance and Prospects

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The use of Latin and the European republic of letters: Change and continuity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The use of Latin and the European republic of letters: Change and continuity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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