Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
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Subject: History
Edited by: Philip Ford (†), Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi
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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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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- Macropaedia (large survey chapters)
- Language and Education
- From Mediaeval Latin to Neo-Latin
- Neo-Latin: Character and Development*
- On Neologisms in Neo-Latin
- Neo-Latin and Renaissance Schools
- Neo-Latin Prosody and Versification
- Conversational Latin to 1650
- Conversational Latin: 1650 to the Present
- Women’s Education
- Revival of Classical Texts
- Hellenism
- Translation and Neo-Latin
- Imitation, Emulation, Ciceronianism, Anti-Ciceronianism
- Neo-Latin Prose Style (from Petrarch to c. 1650)
- Pronunciation of Latin
- Neo-Latin Literature
- Neo-Latin Literary Genres and the Classical Tradition: Adaptation and Inventions
- Neo-Latin Fiction
- Neo-Latin Prose Satire
- Letters
- Neo-Latin ‘Essays’: An Absent Genre that is Omnipresent
- The Theory and Practice of History in Neo-Latin Literature
- Neo-Latin Rhetoric 1380–1620
- Epigrams—The Classical Tradition
- Elegiac Poetry
- Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry in the Renaissance
- Satire
- Pastoral
- The Classification of Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
- The Neo-Latin Epic
- Poetic Psalm Paraphrases
- Neo-Latin Drama
- Neo-Latin Erotic and Pornographic Literature (c. 1400–c. 1700)
- Micropaedia (smaller entries)
- Adversaria, Annotationes, Miscellanea
- Alberti, Leon Battista
- Architectural Theory and the Church
- Atheism
- Bembo, Pietro
- Beza, Theodorus
- Bibliothecae (Hispanic)
- Book Hunting
- Borrowings from Ancient Geography: Transmission or Treason
- Botany
- Bruni—De interpretatione recta
- Budé, Guillaume
- Calvin, John
- Chronology
- Coins and Medals
- Collective Biography
- Commentaries on the Bible and Patristics
- Commonplace Books: Major Items in Print
- Controversy of the Indies
- The Curriculum of the Collège de Guyenne (1583)
- Descartes, René
- Diplomacy and Court Culture
- Editing Neo-Latin Texts: Editorial Principles; Spelling and Punctuation
- Education—Desiderius Erasmus
- Education—Juan Luis Vives
- Educational Treatises from Italy
- Ekphrasis (and Art)
- Emblems
- Epigrams and Epitaphs (on Art and Artists)
- Erasmus—The Adagia, and the Assimilation of the Literary Culture of Classical Antiquity
- Erasmus—The Praise of Folly
- Erasmus—Theological Writings
- Ficino, Marsilio
- Gassendi, Pierre
- Gessner, Conrad
- Gradus ad Parnassum and Other Verse Composition Manuals
- The Greek Anthology
- The Greek Diaspora and Neo-Latin Literature (Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
- Humanist Centres—Leiden and Philology
- Humanist Centres—Naples
- Humanistic Script
- Indigenous American Latinists
- Inscriptions
- Jesuit Georgic Poetry
- The Jesuit Ratio studiorum (1599 Edition). Prescribed Texts: Grammar, the Humanities, Rhetoric, and Philosophy
- The Jesuit Ratio studiorum and its Variants: Textbooks from the College of La Flèche for Classes of Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Humanities (1603–1702)
- Lascaris, Janus
- Latin and the Social Media
- Latin and the Enlightenment
- Latin Language and Style as an Instrument of Political and Cultural Ideology
- Latin Translations from the Vernacular in Early Modern Science
- Latin Translations of Place Names Unknown in the Ancient World
- Latin Travel Journals and Guidebooks
- Latin Vocabulary for New World Phenomena
- Letter Collections
- Letters of Dedication
- Letter-Writing Manuals
- Lucretius—Editions and Commentaries
- Luther, Martin
- Lutheran Latin Education
- Manuals on Note-Taking (ars excerpendi)
- Medical Didactic Poetry
- Melanchthon, Philipp
- More, Thomas
- Neo-Latin and Vernacular Influences in Prose Writing
- Neo-Latin Book Series
- Neo-Latin Forgeries
- Neo-Latin Grammars—Guarino da Verona’s Regulae grammaticales
- Neo-Latin Grammars—Niccolò Perotti’s Rudimenta grammatices
- Neo-Latin Journals
- Neo-Latin Literature—The Balkans (Croatia)
- Neo-Latin Literature—Bohemia
- Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: The Long Sixteenth Century
- Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: Later Centuries
- Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Sixteenth Century: Literature
- Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Sixteenth Century: Contexts
- Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Literature
- Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Contexts
- Neo-Latin Literature—The German Regions
- Neo-Latin Literature—Hungary: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Neo-Latin Literature—Hungary: The Seventeenth Century and Beyond
- Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Age of Petrarch
- Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Quattrocento
- Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: The Cinquecento
- Neo-Latin Literature—Italy: Fascism (1922–1943)
- Neo-Latin Literature—The Low Countries
- Neo-Latin Literature—The Nordic Countries
- Neo-Latin Literature—The Ottoman Empire
- Neo-Latin Literature—Poland
- Neo-Latin Literature—Portugal
- Neo-Latin Literature—Slovakia
- Neo-Latin Literature—Spain: The Long Sixteenth Century
- Neo-Latin Literature—Spain: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Neo-Latin Online
- Neo-Latin Societies
- Neo-Latin Supplements to Classical Latin Works
- New World: Epic Writing
- Orders of Architecture
- Orthography of Neo-Latin
- Pasquinades
- Patronage
- Perotti’s Cornu copiae
- Petrarca, Francesco
- Philology—France
- Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Henry De Vocht
- Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Jozef IJsewijn
- Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Paul Oskar Kristeller
- Pliny (on Art)
- Poetic Genres—The Cento: Poetry
- Poetic Genres—The Cento: Theory
- Poetic Genres—Epistles
- Poetic Genres—Heroides
- Poetic Genres—Occasional Poetry: Practice
- Poetic Genres—Occasional Poetry: Theory
- Poetics—Scaliger, Vida, Pontanus, Vossius
- Praise and Blame
- Print and Pedagogy
- Printing Centres—Basel: Johannes Frobenius, Johannes Amerbach and Others
- Printing Centres—Estienne Family
- Printing Centres—Geneva: Henri II Estienne, Jean Crespin, and Others
- Printing Centres—The Officina Plantiniana
- Printing Centres—Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, Robert I Estienne and Others
- Printing Centres: Strasbourg
- Printing Centres—Venice: Aldus Manutius and the Aldine Press
- Psychiatry—Neo-Latin Sources for its History
- Rhetoric in Architecture
- Roman Law and bonae litterae
- School Colloquia
- Scribes
- Secundus, Joannes
- Seneca’s Philosophical Works—Editions and Commentaries
- Sermons
- Spinoza
- The Strasbourg Gymnasium (1543 Edition)—Prescribed Texts: Grammar, the Humanities, and Rhetoric
- Swedenborg, Emanuel
- Terence as a School Text: Commentaries
- Thou, Jacques Auguste de
- Translation as a Source for Neologisms
- The Typography of Renaissance Humanism
- Valla, Lorenzo
- Valla’s Elegantiae linguae Latinae
- Virgilianism
- Vitruvianism
- Vitruvianism
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- Women Prodigies—Anna Maria van Schurman, Elena Piscopia and Others
- Women Writers in the Elizabethan Period
- Women Writers in Italy: Martha Marchina and Others
- Women Writers’ Networks
- Zoology