New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
Raf Van Rooy
The present volume outlines research perspectives on the restoration of classical bilingualism in early modern period. active use Ancient Greek during and after Renaissance has been attracting increasing attention over past few years, but phenomenon’s strong embeddedness Neo-Latin culture taken somewhat for granted. Likewise, many Neo-Latinists have neglected pervasive element humanism intellectual life, especially way scholars deeply internalized language ancient Greece actively used their New knowledge various contexts forms. In this contribution, I aim to bridge gap between studies by laying out paths find most promising from my own perspective background. My discussion focuses production Low Countries (c.1484–1700), with occasional excursuses other areas. have, however, selected suggestions that are broadly applicable Latin–Greek as a pan-European phenomenon. Part 1 situates within broader scholarship Hellenism, argues (Section 1). Section 2, define central concepts survey current state young field studies. 2 offers perspectives, first macroscale, bird’s-eye perspective, then microscale, zooming particular approaches case Overall, advocate an inclusive broad-spectrum approach sensitive historical contingencies local contexts, also paying transregional dimensions bilingualism.
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