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Acta conventus neo-latini upsaliensis : proceedings of the fourteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Uppsala 2009) / general editor, Astrid Steiner-Weber ; editors, Alejandro Coroleu, Domenico de Filippis, Roger Green, Fidel Radle, Valery Rees, Dirk Sacre, Marjorie Woods and Christine Wulf.
Van Pelt Library PA2801.5 .I58 2012 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (14th : 2009 : Uppsala, Sweden)
- Series:
- Acta conventus neo-latini ; v. 14.
- Acta conventus neo-latini ; v. 14
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Latin language, Medieval and modern--Congresses.
- Latin language, Medieval and modern.
- Latin literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Latin literature.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xxxii, 1228 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English, French, Italian or German.
- Summary:
- The 104 papers are in a number of European languages, not all of them Romance. Among the English-language papers are Renaissance Englishwomen's Latin poetry of praise and lament, medical astrology in Galeotto Marzio's treatise dedicated to Lorenzo il Magnifico, the two versions of Erasmus' Apologia de In principio erat sermo and the role of Edward Lee, the significance of Latin book production by the academic press of the University of Trnava for the development of science in what is now Slovakia, two Latin dissertations on playful marriage vows and other sources of 17th-century lawsuits, Tacitism in theory and practice, chronograms and other pastimes, and the annals as a genre of Hungarian Jesuit historiography in the 17th-18th centuries. The two volumes are paged and indexed together. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004226478
- 9789004226470
- OCLC:
- 812453217
- Publisher Number:
- 99955325181
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