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 | 
