Synopsis
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014
Library Journal Best Print Reference Selection 2014
With its striking range and penetrating depth, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and broad 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 800,000 word two-volume work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences. An invaluable resource for both the advanced scholar and the graduate student.
The Encyclopaedia is also available ONLINE.
Contributors are: Monica Azzolini, Irena Backus, Jon Balserak, Ann Blair, Jan Bloemendal, David Butterfield, Isabelle Charmantier, John Considine, Alejandro Coroleu, Ricardo da Cunha Lima, Susanna de Beer, Erik De Bom, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Tom Deneire, Ingrid De Smet, Karl Enenkel, Charles Fantazzi, Mathieu Ferrand, Roger Fisher, Philip Ford, Raphaele Garrod, Guido Giglioni, Roger Green, Yasmin Haskell, Hans Helander, Lex Hermans, Louise Hill Curth, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brenda Hosington, Erika Jurikova, Craig Kallendorf, Jill Kraye, Andrew Laird, Han Lamers, Marc Laureys, Jeltine Ledegang-Keegstra, Jan Machielsen, Peter Mack, David Marsh, Dustin Mengelkoch, Milena Minkova, David Money, Jennifer Morrish Tunberg, Adam Mosley, Ann Moss, Monique Mund-Dopchie, Colette Nativel, Lodi Nauta, Henk Nellen, Gideon Nisbet, Richard Oosterhoff, Marianne Pade, Jan Papy, David Porter, Johann Ramminger, Jennifer Rampling, Rudolf Rasch, Karen Reeds, Valery Rees, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Stella Revard, Dirk Sacré, Gerald Sandy, Minna Skafte Jensen, Carl Springer, Gorana Stepanic, Harry Stevenson, Jane Stevenson, Andrew Taylor, Nikolaus Thurn, Johannes Trapman, Terence Tunberg, Piotr Urbański, Wiep van Bunge, Harm-Jan van Dam, Demmy Verbeke, Zweder von Martels, Maia Wellington Gahtan, and Paul White.
À propos de l?auteur
Philip Ford, Ph.D. (1977), University of Cambridge, was Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at Clare College. He published five monographs, two critical editions, and numerous articles; he was also the editor or co-editor of a staggering fourteen collective volumes, including the Cambridge French Colloquia series. His last monograph is The Judgment of Palaemon: The Contest between Neo-Latin and Vernacular Poetry in Renaissance France (Brill, 2013). From 2006 to 2009, he served as President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. He died on 8 April 2013.
Jan Bloemendal, Ph.D. (1997) in Classics, Utrecht University studied Classics, Dutch literature and theology. He is a Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Hague. He has published on Neo-Latin and Dutch drama, classical reception, poetics, emblems, and Erasmus. Recently he edited, with Howard B. Norland, Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013).
Charles Fantazzi, Ph.D. (1964) in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, is Thomas Harriot Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics, East Carolina University. He has published several critical editions and translations of Juan Luis Vives and is translator and editor for the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus.
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