Reviews
"The longer essays provide excellent overviews of major topics; the short entries offer basic reference information. Both include bibliographies for further reading. Anyone interested in the Latin language, early modern history and literature, classical studies, book history, theology, or legal history will find this an indispensable reference work. Summing up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty."Fred W. Jenkins, University of Dayton, Ohio. In: CHOICE , Vol. 52, No. 2 (October 2014)."Brill's Encyclopedia of the Neo-Latin World is an essential reference work for anyone interested in discovering how the Latin language continued to be an important medium for intellectual treatises, creative writing, and cultural transmission throughout Europe and beyond in the centuries since Petrarch. Sixty-six large survey articles offer fresh perspectives on a wide range of topics, including conversational Latin, women's education, and Latin law. More than twice as many shorter entries focus on diverse subjects such as major writers, Latin literature written in various countries, centers of printing and publishing, and the pioneering work done by modern scholars in what was then the emerging field of Neo-Latin Studies. The encyclopedia continues the Neo-Latin tradition of international collaboration, scholarship, and publishing." Anne-Marie Lewis, York University, Canada. President, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies, "The 1,240 pages of Brill's Encyclopaedia have entries, by nearly eighty contributors, for almost all conceivable aspects of Neo-Latin language, literature and culture. ... It will be an indispensable starting point for future students and scholars, at a time when the vast and largely unexplored continent of early modern Neo-Latin is becoming increasingly accessible."Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge. In: The Times Literary Supplement , 13 February 2015. "The longer essays provide excellent overviews of major topics; the short entries offer basic reference information. Both include bibliographies for further reading. Anyone interested in the Latin language, early modern history and literature, classical studies, book history, theology, or legal history will find this an indispensable reference work. Summing up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty."Fred W. Jenkins, University of Dayton, Ohio. In: CHOICE , Vol. 52, No. 2 (October 2014)."Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World is an essential reference work for anyone interested in discovering how the Latin language continued to be an important medium for intellectual treatises, creative writing, and cultural transmission throughout Europe and beyond in the centuries since Petrarch. Sixty-six large survey articles offer fresh perspectives on a wide range of topics, including conversational Latin, women's education, and Latin law. More than twice as many shorter entries focus on diverse subjects such as major writers, Latin literature written in various countries, centers of printing and publishing, and the pioneering work done by modern scholars in what was then the emerging field of Neo-Latin Studies. The encyclopaedia continues the Neo-Latin tradition of international collaboration, scholarship, and publishing." Anne-Marie Lewis, York University, Canada. President, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies., "Brill's Encyclopedia of the Neo-Latin World is an essential reference work for anyone interested in discovering how the Latin language continued to be an important medium for intellectual treatises, creative writing, and cultural transmission throughout Europe and beyond in the centuries since Petrarch. Sixty-six large survey articles offer fresh perspectives on a wide range of topics, including conversational Latin, women's education, and Latin law. More than twice as many shorter entries focus on diverse subjects such as major writers, Latin literature written in various countries, centers of printing and publishing, and the pioneering work done by modern scholars in what was then the emerging field of Neo-Latin Studies. The encyclopedia continues the Neo-Latin tradition of international collaboration, scholarship, and publishing." Anne-Marie Lewis, York University, Canada. President, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
