New Perspectives in Global Latin : Second Conference on Latin As a Vehicle of Cultural Exchange Beyond Europe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Della Calce, Elisa.

Contributor:

Mocella, Paola.

Mollea, Simone.

Series:

Roma Sinica Series

Roma Sinica Series ; v.6

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : De Gruyter, 2025.

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference and its proceedings have paid special attention to texts related to Africa and Asia. The richness of literary genres as well as the dialogue between the Humanities and hard sciences characterize this volume. Students of Classics will find reflections on the role of Latin in the humanistic and missionary traditions, whereas historians of ideas and historians of religions will be able to pinpoint key moments in the use of Latin language and culture in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Ethiopian contexts. This volume can also be of interest to people working on Digital Humanities and computational linguistics in Latin language, and it represents a novelty on the world scene, along the lines of the previous Global Latin I Conference, which was yet again held in Siena in 2019.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preliminary Notes

Contents

The Global Latin Research Project: A Foreword

Il latino come lingua sacra

Afonso Mendes, the Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia, and His Debates With Salomon: A Jew From Vienna, at the Court of the King of Ethiopia

Deities, Demons or Decoration? Asian Religions in Two Jesuit Latin Martyr Epics

Latin a World Language? China as Test Case

On the Types of Scholarly Latin Used by Authors in China

Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607), S.J., and the Latin Poem on His Missions in China

Humanism and the Jesuit Mission to China II: A Poetic Biography of Michele Ruggieri, the First Superior of the Jesuit Mission in the Far East

Docere, Mouere Et Delectare: The Use of Latin in the Annual Letters Sent From China – Father Manuel Dias Júnior and the Letter of December 30, 1616

From Martini to Prémare: Early analytic Descriptions of Mandarin Chinese in Latin

A Brief Report on Hagiographica Coreana Focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279–5282

Medical Knowledge in the Latin Language in 18th-Century Korea

Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane in Giappone del XVI e del XVII secolo

Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan: Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin

Index

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ISBN:

3-11-130753-0

OCLC:

1503846057