James Hankins: 'The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists'
On Wednesday, December 6th 2017, Prof. James Hankins gave the talk:
The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists
The talk was followed by a discussion.
News
Philipp Roelli: 'Zur Entwicklung des scholastischen Latein als Wissenschaftssprache'
On Thursday, November 16th 2017, Philipp Roelli gave the talk:
Zur Entwicklung des scholastischen Latein als Wissenschaftssprache
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Entdeckung der Landschaft
The proceedings of the second "Montafon Summit" ("Montafoner Gipfeltreffen"), held in June 2015 at Partenen and coorganised by the LBI, have been published with Böhlau:
Kasper, M. / Korenjak, M. / Rollinger, R. / Rudigier, A. (eds.), Entdeckungen der Landschaft. Raum und Kultur in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wien / Köln / Weimar 2017.
Christian Guerra: 'Verkehrte Welt und comédie humaine in den Gedichten des Johannes Atrocianus'
On Tuesday, October 24th 2017, Christian Guerra gave the talk:
Verkehrte Welt und comédie humaine in den Gedichten des Johannes Atrocianus
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Ida Gilda Mastrorosa: 'Features and merits of ancient Rome in Blondus Flavius'
On Monday, October 30th 2017, Ida Gilda Mastrorosa gave the talk:
… totius Europae gentes Romani ... cultas reddidere. Features and merits of ancient Rome in Blondus Flavius
The talk was by a discussion.
Paul Shore: 'From Qawl to Verbum: Exploring Four Neo-Latin Translations of the Qur’an'
On Wednesday, October 18th 2017, Paul Shore gave the talk:
From Qawl to Verbum: Exploring Four Neo-Latin Translations of the Qur’an
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Literary Windows
The 25th–26th September saw an international group of scholars meet in Old Library at All Soul’s College, Oxford for a two-day conference on the phenomenon of window references in literature. Alongside experts on Classical, Neo-Latin and English literature, there were also contributions on two-tier allusions in French, Middle Irish and Polish literary culture. The conference, organised with the support of the LBI for Neo-Latin Studies, also brought together a number of Boltzmann fellows past and present.
Bernhard Schirg: 'Mario Equicola’s Neither by hope nor fear (1506/1513) and the author’s fight for a white vest'
On Monday, September 18th 2017, Dr. Bernhard Schirg gave the talk:
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny” – Mario Equicola’s Neither by hope nor fear (1506/1513) and the author’s fight for a white vest
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Petra Šoštarić: 'Horrida lustra, horridae Musae'
On Wednesday, September 13th 2017, Dr. Petra Šoštarić gave the talk:
Horrida lustra, horridae Musae: Josephi Rodrigues de Mello De rusticis Brasiliae rebus carminum libri IV
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Business Meeting of the Japan Project
On Saturday, August 28th 2017, Haruka Oba (Faculty of Literature, Kurume University, Japan), a former LBI fellow and currently a partner in the project “Japan on the Jesuit Stage” visited Innsbruck. She had lunch with the LBI team members and discussed the details of the project with Maria Maciejewska and Florian Schaffenrath. They talked about a planned workshop in Japan and an upcoming conference on Jesuit drama, which will take place in Vienna in summer 2018.