Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World

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Edited by: Philip Ford (†), Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi

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With its striking range and penetrating depth, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.

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Terence as a School Text: Commentaries

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Author(s): Bloemendal, Jan
¶ Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 bc) or Terence, as he is commonly known, held a special position in the humanist school curriculum. His plays were read and studied in the classroom and performed by s…

Textual Transaction and Transformation in the Renaissance Printed Book

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Author(s): Taylor, Andrew
¶ The far-reaching transformation of the literary and scholarly cultures of the Renaissance engendered by the invention of printing was more a slow and in many ways unpredictable realisation and releas…