Trilingual learning : the study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin world (1000-1700) / edited by Raf Van Rooy, Pierre Van Hecke, Toon Van Hal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rooy, Raf van, editor.

Van Hecke, Pierre, editor.

Van Hal, Toon, editor.

Series:

Lectio ; 13.

Lectio : studies in the transmission of texts & ideas 13

Language:

English

French

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--To 1500.

Language and languages--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--16th century.

Language and languages--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--17th century.

Multilingualism--Europe--History--To 1500.

Multilingualism.

Multilingualism--Europe--History--16th century.

Multilingualism--Europe--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v. [2022]

Language Note:

Primarily English text with one selection in French ; excerpts in multiple languages with English translations.

Summary:

In 1517, the Brabant city of Louvain witnessed the foundation of the Collegium Trilingue (Three Language College). Funded by means of the legacy of the humanist and diplomat Jerome of Busleyden (d. 1517) and steered by guiding spirit Desiderius Erasmus, this institute offered courses in the three so-called sacred languages Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, which students could attend for free. However, this kind of initiative was not unique to Louvain in the early 16th century. In a time span of barely twenty years, Greek and Hebrew were also offered in Alcalá de Henares (near Madrid), Wittenberg, and Paris, among other places. It would not take long before these ?sacred? languages were also on the educational agenda at universities throughout the whole of Europe.00The present volume examines the general context in which such polyglot institutes emerged and thrived, as well as the learning and teaching practices observed in these institutes and universities. Devoting special attention to the study of the continuity, or rather the discontinuity, between the 16th-century establishment of language chairs and the late medieval interest in these languages, it brings together fourteen selected papers exploring various aspects of these multilingual undertakings, focusing on their pedagogical and scholarly dimensions. 00Most of the contributions were presented on the 2017 LECTIO conference 'The Impact of Learning Greek, Hebrew, and ?Oriental? Languages on Scholarship, Science, and Society in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance', which was organized at the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Louvain Collegium Trilingue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503601069

2503601065

OCLC:

1336488133