Trilingual Learning
The Study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin World (1000-1700)
Edited by Raf Van Rooy Edited by Pierre Van Hecke Edited by Toon Van Hal
This volume advocates a broad approach toward the phenomenon of sacred trilingualism, in terms of both time and topics, by presenting case studies from medieval and early modern Europe and by offering a first kaleidoscopic view of the subject
In 1517, the Brabant city of Louvain witnessed the foundation of the Collegium Trilingue (Three Language College). Funded by means of the legacy of the humanist and diplomat Jerome of Busleyden (d. 1517) and steered by guiding spirit Desiderius Erasmus, this institute offered courses in the three so-called sacred languages Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, which students could attend for free. However, this kind of initiative was not unique to Louvain in the early 16th century. In a time span of barely twenty years, Greek and Hebrew were also offered in Alcala de Henares (near Madrid), Wittenberg, and Paris, among other places. It would not take long before these ‘sacred’ languages were also on the educational agenda at universities throughout the whole of Europe. The present volume examines the general context in which such polyglot institutes emerged and thrived, as well as the learning and teaching practices observed in these institutes and universities. Devoting special attention to the study of the continuity, or rather the discontinuity, between the 16th-century establishment of language chairs and the late medieval interest in these languages, it brings together fourteen selected papers exploring various aspects of these multilingual undertakings, focusing on their pedagogical and scholarly dimensions. Most of the contributions were presented on the 2017 LECTIO conference The Impact of Learning Greek, Hebrew, and ‘Oriental’ Languages on Scholarship, Science, and Society in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which was organized at the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Louvain Collegium Trilingue.
- Edited by Raf Van Rooy
- Edited by Pierre Van Hecke
- Edited by Toon Van Hal
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On Good Authority
Tradition, Compilation and the Construction of Authority in Literature from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Volume 3
Shaping Authority
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Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 2
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Towards the Authority of Vesalius
Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond
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Networking through Biography
Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
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Outsiders and Forerunners
Modern Reason and Historiographical Births of Medieval Philosophy
Volume 5
Le pere du siecle
The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429): Theological Authority between Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
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