Neo-Latin Past Events

 

Cultures across Languages – Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies Seminar

19th October 2023
Faculty of English, GR/04
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), ‘Eloquence and history, sedition and property: Defending universities in Elizabethan England’

23rd November 2023
Faculty of English, GR/04
Evgeniia Ganberg (Cambridge), 'Mistaken identity, civil unrest, and talking rivers: Staging the Trojan War in seventeenth-century Salzburg'

25th Jan 2024
Faculty of English, SR/24
Floris Verhaart (Warwick), 'Dominicus Baudius (1561-1613) and the roles of women in the early modern republic of letters'

15th Feb 2024
Faculty of English, SR/24
Tomos Evans (California State/The Warburg Institute), 'Editing Milton’s Latin and Greek poems: Challenges and opportunities'

2nd May 2024
Faculty of English, SR/24
Yves Peyré (Paul Valéry, Montpellier), 'Jean Miélot's civic mythography'

A Roundtable of the Neo-Latin Seminar 31st May 2024

Faculty of English, SR/24, 2-6:30pm

'Secondariness'

Neo-Latin has often been perceived as a profoundly ‘secondary’ medium: temporally secondary, relative to classical Latin, and in terms of language acquisition; inventively and emotionally secondary, in its supposed reliance on allusion and received ideas; even qualitatively secondary, compared to both classical and vernacular creativity. Participants will address neo-Latin's supposed secondariness from a range of perspectives and fields.

Programme

Welcome and introductory remarks by Katie Mennis (2pm)

Session 1: Position papers followed by general discussion (2:15-4pm)

Sheldon Brammall ‘Very, Very Secondary: Bembo’s De Virgilii Culice and the Play of Erudition’

Jack Colley ‘Secondary Sallust: Costanzo Felici and the Bellum Catilinae in the Early Cinquecento’

Philip Hardie ‘Secondariness and Golden Latin in Girolamo Vida’s De arte poetica’

Justin Haynes ‘Petrarch’s Exclusionary Secondariness in the Africa’

BREAK (4-4:30pm)

Session 2: Position papers followed by general discussion (4:30-6:30pm)

Anna Hartmann ‘The Death of Ajax and the Secondariness of Neo-Latin Translation’

Gesine Manuwald ‘Thomas Campion: a ‘primary’ or a ‘secondary’ poet?’

Katie Mennis ‘The New Poete in and ex tempore: Spenser’s Neo-Latin Style’

Leah Whittington ‘“Thy merit in supply”: Ben Jonson, Henry Savile, and the Paradoxes of Secondary Authorship.