Latinity and alterity in the early modern period
By: edited by Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys.
Contributors: Haskell, Yasmin Annabel.; Ruys, Juanita Feros.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies -- v. 360
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tempe
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780866984089
Subjects: Latin language, Medieval and modern -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Distant empires, buried signs: in search of new worlds of Latin in the early modern period : introduction / Yasmin Haskell; title: Other Latins, other cultures / Ann Moss; title: Latin and the vernacular : the silence at the beginning of Bruni's Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum / Siobhan O'Rourke and Alison Holcroft; title: De ortu et occasu linguae Latinae : the Latin language and the origins of the concept of language death / John Considine; title: Boileau's Art poétique latinized / Christopher Allen; title: Gacon's Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) Art poétique / translated into Latin by François Gacon (1667-1725) ; text edited and annotated by Christopher Allen and Frances Muecke; title: From virile eloquence to hysteria : reading the latinity of Heloise in the early modern period / Juanita Feros Ruys; title: Latin in Cuauhtémoc's shadow : humanism and the politics of language in Mexico after the Conquest / Andrew Laird; title: New world 'Ethiopians' : slavery and mining in early modern Brazil through Latin eyes / Alexandra de Brito Mariano; title: "Sub herili venditur hasta" : an early eighteenth-century justification of the slave trade by a colonial poet / John Gilmore; title: Can the subaltern speak Latin? : the case of Capitein / Grant Parker; title: Latin terms and periphrases for Native Americans in the Jesuit relations / John Gallucci; title: History and poetry in Philippus Meyerus's Humanist Latin portraits of the Prophet Mohammed and the Ottoman rulers (1594) / Marc Laureys.