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

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

 

Volume 6 in the series Roma Sinica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111307534

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

Open Access

	I
Preliminary Notes Open Access

	V
Contents Open Access

	VII
The Global Latin Research Project: A Foreword Francesco Stella Open Access

	1
Il latino come lingua sacra Adriano Prosperi Open Access

	9
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 Open Access

	23
Deities, Demons or Decoration? Asian Religions in Two Jesuit Latin Martyr Epics Yasmin Haskell Open Access

	33
Latin a World Language? China as Test Case Fritz-Heiner Mutschler Open Access

	53
On the Types of Scholarly Latin Used by Authors in China Philipp Roelli Open Access

	69
Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607), S.J., and the Latin Poem on His Missions in China Massimiliano Carloni and Xie Mingguang Open Access

	91
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 Open Access

	135
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 Open Access

	153
From Martini to Prémare: Early analytic Descriptions of Mandarin Chinese in Latin Anna Di Toro and Luisa M. Paternicò Open Access

	165
A Brief Report on Hagiographica Coreana Focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279–5282 Jaewon Ahn Open Access

	197
Medical Knowledge in the Latin Language in 18th-Century Korea Kukjin Kim Open Access

	209
Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane in Giappone del XVI e del XVII secolo Aldo Tollini Open Access

	225
Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan: Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin Akihiko Watanabe Open Access

	241
Index Open Access

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