Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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

Edited by: Elisa Della Calce , Paola Mocella and Simone Mollea
 book: New Perspectives in Global Latin
Volume 6 in the series Roma Sinica

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.

  • Language: English
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Copyright year: 2025
  • Audience: Students and scholars of literary studies, philology, philosophy and history
  • Pages
    • Front matter: 8
    • Main content: 256
  • Illustrations
    • Illustrations: 7
    • Coloured Illustrations: 5
    • Tables: 6
    • Coloured Tables: 1
  • Keywords: Latin; globalisation; science; culture
eBook
  • Published: March 3, 2025
  • ISBN: 9783111307534
Hardcover
  • Published: March 3, 2025
  • ISBN: 9783111296173

 

Frontmatter


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I

Preliminary Notes


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V

Contents


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VII

The Global Latin Research Project: A Foreword


Francesco Stella
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Il latino come lingua sacra


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


Leonardo Cohen and Paul Rodrigue
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Deities, Demons or Decoration? Asian Religions in Two Jesuit Latin Martyr Epics


Yasmin Haskell
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Latin a World Language? China as Test Case


Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
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On the Types of Scholarly Latin Used by Authors in China


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


Massimiliano Carloni and Xie Mingguang
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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


Charles Burnett
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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


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


Anna Di Toro and Luisa M. Paternicò
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A Brief Report on Hagiographica Coreana Focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279–5282


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


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


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


Akihiko Watanabe
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Index


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