New perspectives in global Latin : second conference on Latin as a vehichle of cultural exchange beyond Europe / Elisa Della Calce, Paola Mocella and Simone Mollea.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."

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Contents

Preliminary Notes V

Francesco Stella

The Global Latin Research Project: A Foreword 1

Adriano Prosperi

Il latino come lingua sacra 9

Leonardo Cohen, Paul Rodrigue

Afonso Mendes, the Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia, and His Debates With Salomon: A Jew From Vienna, at the Court of the King of Ethiopia 23

Yasmin Haskell

Deities, Demons or Decoration? Asian Religions in Two Jesuit Latin Martyr Epics 33

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

Latin a World Language? China as Test Case 53

Philipp Roelli

On the Types of Scholarly Latin Used by Authors in China 69

Massimiliano Carloni, Xie Mingguang

Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607), S.J., and the Latin Poem on His Missions in China 91

Charles Burnett

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 135

Maria Cristina Pimentel

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 153

Anna Di Toro and Luisa M. Paternicò

From Martini to Prémare: Early analytic Descriptions of Mandarin Chinese in Latin 165

Jaewon Ahn

A Brief Report on Hagiographica Coreana Focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279–5282 197

Kukjin Kim

Medical Knowledge in the Latin Language in 18th-Century Korea 209

Aldo Tollini

Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane in Giappone del XVI e del XVII secolo 225

Akihiko Watanabe

Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan: Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin 241

Index 251