'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.
Author(s): Federica Ciccolella (ed.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 336
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 394
City: Leiden
List of Figures vii
'Graecia transvolavit Alpes' viii
Editor’s Note xiii
Contributors xiv
1. Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men / Inmaculada Pérez Martín 1
2. How Guillaume Budé Created His 'Commentarii Linguae Graecae': Budé’s Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540 / Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 18
3. The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé’s Collection of Greek Letters / Gianmario Cattaneo 27
4. Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape / Natasha Constantinidou 49
5. 'Athenae Belgicae': Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges / Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy 72
6. Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century) / Christian Gastgeber 110
7. Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania / Iulian Mihai Damian 134
8. 'In Ecclesia Papistæa': Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg / Marianne Pade 164
9. The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon’s Greek Grammar / Federica Ciccolella 182
10. How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century / Tua Korhonen 224
11. 'Versificandi mania'. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden / Johanna Akujärvi 251
12. Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia / Ovanes Akopyan 279
Bibliography 295
Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials 362
Index of Personal Names 365
