On Thursday, January 19th 2017, Ronny Kaiser gave the talk:
Erste Beobachtungen zur Rezeption mittelalterlicher Geschichtstexte in Editionen deutscher Humanisten
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Jean-François Cottier, Professor for Latin Language and Literature at Université Paris Diderot – Paris VII, is visiting the Institute for two weeks to collaborate with William Barton on the translation of Justus Pascasius’ De Alea (1561). The text, the first treatise ever dedicated entirely to the subject of gambling, has emerged as a critical document for the understanding of gaming and the history of gambling addiction in the late Renaissance and early modern period.
On Thursday, December 15th 2016, Dr. Bernhard Schirg gave the talk:
The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius, or: Sweden’s first printed Emblem Book revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Botanical Dissertation (1686)
The talk was followed by a discussion.
A 30 minutes podcast report on Olof Rudbek: http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/wissen/olof-rudbeck/-/id=66037...
On Wednesday, November 30th 2016, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gabriella Mazzon gave the talk:
Language choices as ideological statements in medieval and Early Modern Britain
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On 17 November 2016, Jaroslaw Nowaszczuk organized a conference at the University of Szczecin on Iesuitae in Polonia - Poloni Iesuitae. De scriptis Latinis saeculi sexti decimi et septimi decimi (http://classica-mediaevalia.pl/2016/10/konferencja-iesuitae-in-polonia-p...). Speakers came from Poland, Rome, Germany, and Austria: Florian Schaffenrath gave a paper on The didactic poet Ignatius Wilczek.
On Wednesday, November 23rd 2016, Dr. Nicolas Detering gave the talk:
Kommunikationsrevolution und Kontinentalisierung: Mediengeschichtliche Überlegungen zum Europabewusstsein in der Frühen Neuzeit
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Monday, November 14th 2016, Prof. Ivano Dionigi gave the talk:
Lucrezio: verba et res – la grammatica del cosmo
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, November 10th 2016, Marco Bellabarba gave the talk:
Lingue di comunicazione, lingue burocratiche, lingue nazionali: la Sprachenfrage nelle terre asburgiche tra Sette e Novecento
The talk was followed by a discussion.
The team of the LBI’s project line „Neo-Latin and Mentalities“ was invited to lead an event for PhD-students on landscape narratives in ancient and early modern times on October 21–22 in Basel. The workshop was co-organized by the Classics institutes of Basel University and Zurich University under the supervision of Prof. Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and Anne-Sophie Meyer, MA.
In 1687, the jurist Anton Wilhelm Ertl published the Neo-Latin romance Austriana regina Arabiae. The romance is an allegorical treatment of the events surrounding the second Ottoman siege of Vienna starting in 1683, and it propagandizes for the House of Habsburg. The work marked the birth of the Neo-Latin Habsburg novel. This edition presents the text with German translation and an introduction to the Neo-Latin (Habsburg) novel.
Isabella Walser, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck, Österreich.