Sarah Knight - The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Oxford handbook of Neo-Latin / edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg.
pages cm (Oxford handbooks)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9780199948178 (hardback) ISBN 9780199984206 (online file)eISBN 97801902733471. Latin literature, Medieval and modernHistory and criticism.2. Latin languageHistory.I. Tilg, Stefan.II. Knight, Sarah, 1975III. Series: Oxford handbooks.
PA8015.O96 2015
870.9'004dc23
2015000185

S ARAH K NIGHT AND S TEFAN T ILG

K EITH S IDWELL

D EMMY V ERBEKE

V ICTORIA M OUL

F LORIAN S CHAFFENRATH

D AVID M ONEY

S TEFAN T ILG

G ARY R. G RUND

M ARC V AN D ER P OEL

E RIK D E B OM

P ATRICK B AKER

J AN P APY

M ARK T. R ILEY

I NGRID A. R. D E S MET

R OBERT B LACK

S ARAH K NIGHT

G UIDO G IGLIONI

B RIAN W. O GILVIE

D AG N IKOLAUS H ASSE

A NDREW T AYLOR

J ASON H ARRIS

I RENA B ACKUS

M ARC L AUREYS

D IANA R OBIN

F RANOISE W AQUET

D AVID M ARSH

P AUL W HITE

E STELLE H AAN

R OBERT S EIDEL

A LEJANDRO C OROLEU AND C ATARINA F OUTO

D IRK S ACR

A NNIKA S TRM AND P ETER Z EEBERG

C RISTINA N EAGU

A NDREW L AIRD

J EAN -F RANOIS C OTTIER , H AIJO W ESTRA , AND J OHN G ALLUCCI

N OL G OLVERS

S ARAH K NIGHT AND S TEFAN T ILG

Irena Backus is Titular Professor at the University of Geneva (Institut dhistoire de la Rformation), and a specialist in the reception of the church fathers and of the New Testament Apocrypha in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She has also worked on the history of biblical exegesis in the sixteenth century. Select publications include The Disputations of Baden (1526) and Berne (1528): Neutralizing the Early Church (Princeton University Press, 1993); La patristique et les guerres de religion en France (Institut dEtudes Augustiennes, 1993); and (as editor) .

Patrick Baker is Senior Research Associate at Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin. His work focuses on Renaissance humanism and the reception of the classical tradition. He is the author of Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Christianity, Latinity, and Culture: Two Studies on Lorenzo Valla (Brill, 2014).

Robert Black is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds. His principal publications in the field of Renaissance education include Studio e scuola in Arezzo durante il medioevo e il rinascimento (Accademia Petrarca di Lettere, Arte, e Scienze, 1996), .

Alejandro Coroleu is Instituci Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanats (ICREA) Research Professor at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona. His main research areas are the role of Latin in early modern cultural history, and the study of the classical tradition in Renaissance Catalunya. He is the author of Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe, ca.1480ca. 1540 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).

Jean-Franois Cottier is Professor at the University of Paris-Diderot and Associate Professor at the University of Montreal. He has published on medieval and Neo-Latin and on the humanist interpretation of the Bible. In particular, he is the editor of Erasmus of Rotterdams Paraphrases of the Gospels in the ASD series. Over the last few years, he has also developed an interest in the Latin heritage of New France.

Erik De Bom is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, and a senior researcher at LECTIO (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (GGS). He specializes in early modern political thought and contemporary political philosophy. Currently, he is editing with Harald E. Braun A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics, to be published by Brill.

Ingrid A. R. De Smet, FBA, is Professor of French and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Warwick. She was educated at the Universities of Leuven and Cambridge and formerly held a Prize Fellowship and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. Specializing in the intellectual culture of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century France and the Low Countries, she is the author of ; and La Fauconnerie la Renaissance: Le Hieracosophion de Jacques Auguste de Thou (1582/84) (Droz, 2013). The present chapter on satire was written during her Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (20112014), which also laid the groundwork for her project on Secrets and Their Keepers in Late Renaissance France.

Catarina Fouto is Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at Kings College, London. She took a D.Phil. at Oxford University with a study of Portuguese Neo-Latin. Her interests include medieval and early modern Portuguese literature (vernacular and Latin) and its cultural context, humanism and the Counter-Reformation, censorship and history of the book, and critical edition and translation.

John Gallucci is Professor of French at Colgate University (Hamilton, New York). He has published on seventeenth-century French literature and the Latin writings of the French Jesuit missionaries. His translation of the Castorland Journal, which documents a group of French migrs settling in New York State in 17931797, appeared in 2010 (Cornell University Press).

Guido Giglioni is the Cassamarca Lecturer in Neo-Latin Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has published books on Jan Baptiste van Helmont (Milan 2000) and Francis Bacon (Rome 2011), and has edited a volume of manuscript papers of Francis Glisson (Cambridge 1996). He works on the intersections of medicine and philosophy in the early modern period.

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