History of Scholarship

Exploring the Republic of Letters: German Travellers in the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720

by Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen

An article published in "Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions", eds. Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier, Christopher J. Ries (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012), 101-122

Academic Charisma and the Old Regime

by Kristine Haugen

History of Universities 22,1 (2007): 199-228

How did scholarship and the early modern university interact so as to lay the foundations for the rise of the research... more How did scholarship and the early modern university interact so as to lay the foundations for the rise of the research university around 1800? In effect, how new was the research university at all? This is an article-length review of William Clark, 'Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University' (2006). Through a survey of Germany, England, and the Netherlands, it's pointed out that an intense focus on writing production in the university, the institution of the superstar professor, and the teaching of a select few to become new professors were all firmly established elements of the 16th- and 17th-century university just as well as at Enlightenment Halle (for example). Lastly, was it a move for the better when learning retreated inside the walls of the university and out of the early modern republic of letters?

The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History

by Kristine Haugen

Journal of the History of Ideas 72,3 (2011): 351-70

As literary history stages a comeback as a method in contemporary literary study, it makes sense to ask about its... more As literary history stages a comeback as a method in contemporary literary study, it makes sense to ask about its antecedents. In the Renaissance, as it turns out, literary history was widely pursued alongside interpretive commentary and textual criticism. Perhaps the thorniest question Renaissance scholars faced in this field, as well as the most resonant for 21st-century readers, centered on the birth of tragedy in ancient Greece. What had been the tragedy's original form, and in particular, had it included music in any way? To attempt to answer was to engage with Aristotle's 'Poetics' in a very unfamiliar way, and moreover to compare Greek with Roman sources imaginatively and boldly. Angelo Poliziano, Francesco Robortello, Pier Vettori, and Francesco Patrizi da Cherso are discussed.

Illa fenginn mjöður: lesið í miðaldatexta

by Ármann Jakobsson

http://www.haskolautgafan.hi.is/illa_fenginn_mjodur

Ottavio Rossi appointed antiquary to the Commune of Brescia

by Simone Signaroli

Documents for a cultural biography of Ottavio Rossi (1578-1630) antiquary, I, Ottavio Rossi appointed antiquary to the Commune of Brescia, © 2012

The paper presents some documents that attest Rossi’s appointment to the Commune of Brescia as municipal antiquary... more The paper presents some documents that attest Rossi’s appointment to the Commune of Brescia as municipal antiquary (1610-1623).

Brescia, Venezia, Leida: i Chronica di Elia Capriolo nella Respublica literaria dell’Europa moderna, “Italia medioevale e umanistica”, 49 (2008), pp. 287-329

by Simone Signaroli

The humanist and politician Elia Capriolo (d. 1512-1517) published in 1505 a series of Chronica de rebus Brixianorum,... more The humanist and politician Elia Capriolo (d. 1512-1517) published in 1505 a series of Chronica de rebus Brixianorum, a history of his birthplace Brescia from its origins down to his own time. He later wrote a supplement in two books, first published as late as 1723 by the Dutch scholar Pieter Burman (Leiden, Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae, to. IX pars VII). This article puts Capriolo's biography on a new footing, enriched by new archival documents, and describes the ms tradition of the last two books of the Chronica, in which scholars and statesmen of the early 17th century such as Gerardus Joannes Vossius, Domenico Molino and Ottavio Rossi were directly involved.

Memorie di storia municipale all’inizio del Seicento: primi appunti archivistici dal comune di Brescia, “Aevum”, 83 (2009), pp. 851-858

by Simone Signaroli

Some documents from the historical archive of the commune of Brescia attest that, in the early seventeenth century,... more Some documents from the historical archive of the commune of Brescia attest that, in the early seventeenth century, the municipality of that town was institutionally preserving both epigraphical and manuscript evidences of its own history. In 1605, the text of a classic inscription was registered in one of the communal administrative books. Then, in 1607, a manuscript of Iacopo Malvezzi’s Chronicon, written by Tommaso Mercanda in 1545, was acquired by the commune. This book still lies in the city historical archive (Brescia, Archivio di Stato, Archivio Storico Civico 1463). On the same occasion another manuscript was bought too: a copy of Cristoforo Soldo’s vernacular chronicle, indentifiable as the manuscript now Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, K VI 23, copied by the same Tommaso Mercanda.

L’edizione veneta di Albertino Mussato (1636) e l’erudizione europea di primo Seicento, “Italia medioevale e umanistica”, 50 (2009), pp. 313-341

by Simone Signaroli

The Venetian edition of Albertino Mussato and the chroniclers of the March o Treviso (1636) invites investigation of... more The Venetian edition of Albertino Mussato and the chroniclers of the March o Treviso (1636) invites investigation of the approach to medieval a humanistic Latin texts adopted by two of the leading scholars of the early 17th century, Felice Osio and Lorenzo Pignoria, principal editors of the volume. Their work, which had historical and political implications, is seen as part of a wider tradition of studies of local Paduan antiquities and of an international scholarly network which created contacts between statesmen, historians and philologists in the Republic of Venice, Holland, France and Enlgand.

La formazione dell'esperto (ummânu) nel periodo neo-assiro

by Lorenzo Verderame

Published in Historiae 5 (2008), 51-67

The aim of this paper is to research the transition from the more basic and general scribal training to the... more The aim of this paper is to research the transition from the more basic and general scribal training to the magical-mantic specialistic apprenticeship in the Neo-Assyrian period through the analysis of colophons, letters, and reports of the ummânu's. A special emphasis on scribal families traditions, on the interdisciplinary approach, on the practical training as well as on the travels abroad with the purpose of further learning, is given.

[Keywords: assyriology, Mesopotamia, cuneiform, neo-assyrian, Assyria, magic, divination, scribes]

“What Is It That Philologists Do Exactly?” at Conference “Des manuscrits anciens à l'ère digitale: lectures et littératies,” Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. August 2011.

by Holt Parker

http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/digitalera2011/deroulement/
The full set of video lectures.

A video of my lecture (with powerpoint) at the Conference "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Age,"... more A video of my lecture (with powerpoint) at the Conference "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Age," Lausanne, August 2011.

In press: “Rāmasubrahmaṇya’s Manuscripts: A Kaveri Delta Collection Then and Now”

by Dominik Wujastyk

In press, in Saraju Rath (ed.) Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India (Leiden: Brill).

The Uruk List of Kings and Sages and Late Mesopotamian Scholarship

by Alan Lenzi

A discussion of the significance of BaMB 2 89. A discussion of the significance of BaMB 2 89.

Warburg more bibliographico

by Thomas Gilbhard

in: Nouvelles de la République des Lettres , 2008 ~ II, p. 81–95

[Rec.] The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966, ed. John Tedeschi. Firenze: Olschki, 2002.

by Thomas Gilbhard

in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, LVI, 2004, p. 279

Architectural History in Italian Schools of Architecture

by Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi

with Elena Dellapiana and Daniela Prina, in "European Architectural History Network Newsletter", n. 3/2010, pp. 26-35

http://www.eahn.org/site/en/explorations210italy.php

Islam, Christianity and the Conflict Thesis

by B. Harun Küçük

(eds. Geoffrey Cantor, Thomas Dixon and Stephen Pumfrey), Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009)

L’esperienza di un precettore pubblico in una città di provincia del Cinquecento, “Annali di storia della scuola italiana”, 17 (2010), pp. 247-264

by Marta Materni

'Studiet av den etruskiska glyptiken', Medusa: svensk tidskrift för antiken, 2011:1, 29-34

by Ulf R. Hansson

[The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a non-academic journal, this short piece is an outline of the... more [The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a non-academic journal, this short piece is an outline of the history of scholarship and collecting covering the period c. 1750-2000. There are plans to translate, transform and expand the text into a longer article for an academic journal.

'Studiet av den etruskiska glyptiken', Medusa: svensk tidskrift för antiken, 2011:1, 29-34

by Ulf R. Hansson

[The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a non-academic journal, this short piece is an outline of the... more [The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a non-academic journal, this short piece is an outline of the history of scholarship and collecting covering the period c. 1750-2000. There are plans to translate, transform and expand the text into a longer article for an academic journal.

Recent Literary Theory and Criticism in Spanish Anglistics: Some Observations on Its Institutional Context and Practices

by José Angel García Landa

Published in Links and Letters 8 (2001)

This paper addresses the institutional context and academic practices related to the production and use of literary... more This paper addresses the institutional context and academic practices related to the production and use of literary theory and criticism in the Spanish universities, with a special focus on the role of theory in Spanish Anglistics in recent years. The paper assesses interdisciplinary communication, the impact of new theoretical paradigms (feminism, postcolonial Studies, etc.) in a specifically Spanish setting, and the disciplinary transformations and new publishing opportunities associated to the new media ecology. Close attention is paid to issues of cultural colonization, disciplinary marginality and the contextual roots of academic praxis.