Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe

Natasha Constantinidou, Ph.D. (Edinburgh) is Assistant Professor in European History (University of Cyprus). She has published on book and intellectual history, including Responses to Religious Division, c. 1580–1620 (2017) and a number of articles on sixteenth-century Greek printing.Han Lamers (Ph.D. Leiden University, 2013) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, and the History of Art and Ideas of the University of Oslo (Norway). His publications include Greece Reinvented: Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy (2015).

“Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe: 15th–17th Centuries is an engaging and wide-ranging volume for both historians and classicists, detailing with a diverse range of Greek receptions in this important period.” - Harriet Lander, University of Nottingham, in: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2021), pp. 181–183

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsContributorsIntroduction: Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern EuropeNatasha Constantinidou and Han LamersPart 1: Access and DisseminationPart 2: Learning, Teaching, and Printing Greek1 Aldus Manutius and the Learning of Greek: the Aldine AppendixPaola Tomè (†)2 From a Thirsty Desert to the Rise of the Collège de France: Greek Studies in Paris, c.1490–1540Luigi-Alberto Sanchi3 Teaching Greek with Aristophanes in the French Renaissance, 1528–1549Malika Bastin-Hammou4 A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (1490–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century LouvainRaf Van Rooy5 Greek History in the Early-Modern Classroom: Lectures on Herodotus by Johannes Rosa and School Notes by Jacques Bongars (Jena, 1568)Anthony EllisPart 3: Migration, Exchange, and IdentityCultural Encounters and Exchanges between ‘Greek East’ and ‘Latin West’6 From “Bounteous Flux of Matter” to Hellenic City: Late Byzantine Representations of Constantinople and the Western AudienceAslihan Akişik-Karakullukçu7 Icons of Narratives: Greek-Venetian Artistic Interchange, Thirteenth–Fifteenth CenturiesMichele Bacci8 Barbaric and Assimilated Hellenes: Textual and Visual Images of Greek Scholars between Lapo da Castiglionchio (c.1405–1438) and Paolo Giovio (1483–1552)Peter Bell9 Maximos Margounios (c.1549–1602), his Anacreontic Hymns, and the Byzantine Revival in Early Modern GermanyFederica CiccolellaPerspectives on Greek Migrants in the West10 Love and Exile in Michael Marullus Tarchaniota: Geographical Exile, Spiritual HomelessnessNiketas Siniossogliou11 The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 Iliad and the Unprosodic New TrojansCalliope Dourou12 From Courts to Cities: Greek Migration, Community Formation, and Networks of Mutual Assistance in Sixteenth-Century ItalyNiccolò FattoriAppropriations and Use: Cultural & ReligiousHistory, Archaeology, and Antiquarianism13 The Greekness of Greek Inscriptions: Ancient Inscriptions in Early Modern ScholarshipWilliam Stenhouse14 Pirro Ligorio (1513–1583) and Greek AntiquityMichail Chatzidakis15 Ancient Coins and the Use of Greek History in Sicilia et Magna Graecia by Hubertus Goltzius (1525–1583)Maria Luisa NapolitanoHumanist Greek and the Reformation16 Hyperborean Flowers: Humanist Greek Around the Baltic Sea, Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesJanika Päll17 “Graecia transvolavit Alpes”: the Evaluation of Humanist Greek Writing in Germany by Georg Lizel (1694–1761)Stefan WeiseGeneral BibliographyIndex