Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Neo-Latin Studies

Award of Excellence for Stefan Zathammer

On 21 October 2020, our team member Dr. Stefan Zathammer was presented with the Award of Excellence by the University of Innsbruck for his outstanding PhD studies. The LBI is pleased and congratulates Stefan Zathammer warmly! In his dissertation entitled “Joseph Resch: Sanctus Ingenuinus (1749): Introduction, Edition, Translation and Commentary”, Zathammer dealt with a Neo-Latin drama from the 18th century.

On October, 20^th, Johanna Luggin gave a virtual guest talk at the STVDIO seminar of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick. She presented the peculiar reception of doctrines by philosopher René Descartes in two Neo-Latin didactic poems from the 18^th century – the Mundus Cartesii (“The World of Descartes”) written by Pierre le Coëdic SJ and the Cerebrum (“The Brain”) written by Claude Griffet SJ.

Bloosmbury Neo-Latin Series Book Launch

The Editors of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series (BNLS) are delighted to announce the inauguration of the series with a virtual book launch scheduled for 5pm (BST) 30^th September 2020. The event will be hosted on Crowdcast, a platform provided by the Society of Renaissance Studies (SRS).

Podcast Interview on ‘Contesting Europe’

In December 2017, two members of the LBI, Isabella Walser-Bürgler and Clementina Marsico, co-organised an international and interdisciplinary conference on ‘Early Modern Discourses: Representations of Community and Identity (1450–1750)’ together with their colleague Nicolas Detering from the University of Bern (some conference highlights are documented here).

First two volumes of the BNLS available for pre-order

The Bloomsbury Series for Neo-Latin Studies (BNLS) is delighted to announce that its first two volumes are now available for pre-order. An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature edited by Gesine Manuwald, L. B. T. Houghton, Lucy R. Nicholas and An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature edited Gesine Manuwald, Daniel Hadas, Lucy R.