This volume, edited by Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers, investigates modes of receiving and responding to Greeks, Greece, and Greek in early modern Europe (15th-17th centuries). The book's seventeen detailed studies illuminate the reception of Greek culture (the classical, Byzantine, and even post-Byzantine traditions), the Greek language (ancient, vernacular, and 'humanist'), as well as the people claiming, or being assigned, Greek identities during this period in different geographical and cultural contexts. Discussing subjects as diverse as, for example, Greek studies and the Reformation, artistic interchange between Greek East and Latin West, networks of communication in the Greek diaspora, and the ramifications of Greek antiquarianism, the book aims at encouraging a more concerted debate about the role of Hellenism in early modern Europe that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries, and opening ways towards a more over-arching understanding of this multifaceted cultural phenomenon.
Author(s): Natasha Constantinidou, Han Lamers (eds.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 303
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 584
City: Leiden
Preface ix
List of Figures and Tables xii
Abbreviations xvii
Contributors xix
Introduction: Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe / Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers 1
Part 1. Access and Dissemination
Learning, Teaching, and Printing Greek
1. Aldus Manutius and the Learning of Greek: the Aldine 'Appendix' / Paola Tomè 31
2. From a Thirsty Desert to the Rise of the Collège de France: Greek Studies in Paris, c. 1490–1540 / Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 53
3. Teaching Greek with Aristophanes in the French Renaissance, 1528–1549 / Malika Bastin-Hammou 72
4. A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (c.1495–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century Louvain / Raf Van Rooy 94
5. Greek History in the Early-Modern Classroom: Lectures on Herodotus by Johannes Rosa and School Notes by Jacques Bongars (Jena, 1568) / Anthony Ellis 113
Part 2. Migration, Exchange, and Identity
Cultural Encounters and Exchanges between 'Greek East' and 'Latin West'
6. From 'Bounteous Flux of Matter' to Hellenic City: Late Byzantine Representations of Constantinople and the Western Audience / Aslıhan Akışık-Karakullukçu 145
7. Icons of Narratives: Greek-Venetian Artistic Interchange, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries / Michele Bacci 173
8. Barbaric and Assimilated Hellenes: Textual and Visual Images of Greek Scholars between Lapo da Castiglionchio (c.1405–1438) and Paolo Giovio (1483–1552) / Peter Bell 189
9. Maximos Margounios (c.1549–1602), his Anacreontic Hymns, and the Byzantine Revival in Early Modern Germany / Federica Ciccolella 215
Perspectives on Greek Migrants in the West
10. Love and Exile in Michael Marullus Tarchaniota: Geographical Exile, Spiritual Homelessness / Niketas Siniossoglou 233
11. The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 'Iliad' and the Unprosodic New Trojans / Calliope Dourou 260
12. From Courts to Cities: Greek Migration, Community Formation, and Networks of Mutual Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Niccolò Fattori 279
Part 3. Appropriations and Use: Cultural & Religious History, Archaeology, and Antiquarianism
13. The Greekness of Greek Inscriptions: Ancient Inscriptions in Early Modern Scholarship / William Stenhouse 307
14. Pirro Ligorio (c. 1513–1583) and Greek Antiquity / Michail Chatzidakis 325
15. Ancient Coins and the Use of Greek History in 'Sicilia' et 'Magna Graecia' by Hubertus Goltzius (1526–1583) / Maria Luisa Napolitano 347
Humanist Greek and the Reformation
16. 'Graecia transvolavit Alpes': Humanist Greek Writing in Germany (15th–17th Centuries) Through the Eyes of Georg Lizel (1694–1761) / Stefan Weise 379
17. Hyperborean Flowers: Humanist Greek Around the Baltic Sea (16th–17th Centuries) / Janika Päll 410
General Bibliography 439
Index 544
