Call for Papers: Intersections
Call for Papers
Intersections
VOL 27
PORTUGUESE HUMANISM AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
INTERSECTIONS brings together new material on well considered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies. Contributions may come from any of the disciplines within the humanities. The themes are directed towards hitherto little explored areas or reflect a lively debate within the international community of scholars.
Volumes published to date: 1 (2001) Enenkel et alii, Recreating Ancient History. […]; 2 (2002) Van Houdt et alii, […] Strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the Early Modern Period; 3 (2003) Gelderblom et alii, The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs; 4 (2004) Enenkel –Neuber, Cognition and the Book. Typologies of Formal Organisation of Knowledge in the Printed Book of the Early Modern Period; 5 (2005) Hamilton et alii, The Republic of Letters and the Levant; 6 (2006), Enenkel – Papy, Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance; 7 (2007) Enenkel – Smith, Early Modern Zoology. The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts; vol. 8 (2007) Smith – Enenkel, Montaigne and the Low Countries; 9 (2008) Göttler – Neuber, […] The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern […] Culture; 10 (2008), Murphy – Todd, […] New Contexts for Thomas Browne; 11 (2008) Zittel et alii, Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries;12 (2009), van Dijkhuizen – Enenkel, The Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture.
Editorial Board
Prof. dr. W. van Anrooij (Dutch; University of Leiden)
Prof. dr. K.A.E. Enenkel (general editor; Classical Studies and Neo-Latin; University of Leiden)
Prof. dr. R.L. Falkenburg (Art History; University of New York)
Dr. J.L. de Jong (editorial secretary; Art History; University of Groningen)
Dr. E.E.P. Kolfin (Art History; University of Amsterdam; Free University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Kathryn Murphy (English; University of Oxford)
Prof. dr. W. Neuber (German; Free University of Berlin)
Prof. Dr. H. Roodenburg (Meertens Institute)
Prof. dr. P.J. Smith (French; University of Leiden)
Prof. dr. R.K. Todd (English; University of Leiden)
Prof. dr. Claus Zittel (Philosophy; Max Planck Institut Florenz)
Published by Brill, Leiden
The Netherlands
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PORTUGUESE HUMANISM AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
The present volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts.
The few studies on Portuguese humanism currently available have mostly been written from a local or ‘insider’s perspective’. This volume aims at mapping a largely unknown and hitherto little researched area of considerable importance for early modern intellectual and artistic culture. In the Renaissance, Portugal became both a center for the dissemination of the new geographical and cultural knowledge opened up by maritime navigations, and a meeting place for humanist scholars, artists and theologians coming from elsewhere in Europe, as for example Nicolaus Clenardus, George Buchanan and Andrea Sansovino. In their Latin texts, Portuguese men of letters transmitted the New World discoveries to their European colleagues, who conversely, inspired them to create innovative poetry and prose, in Neo-Latin as well as in the vernacular, involving them in current philosophical, theological, philological and scientific discussions. Among the humanists who played an important role in the formation of Lusitanian Humanism were Poliziano, Erasmus and Vives. In positioning themselves in the international Respublica litteraria, a number of Portuguese humanists expressed a strong feeling of pride in Portugal’s recent conquests, and cultivated the idea of Lisbon as a new Rome and caput mundi. It is therefore important to ask how international and antiquarian scholarship contributed to the development of a distinct Portuguese identity. Because of their international contacts, especially to Italy, the humanists mediated the transmission of ‘modern’ artistic ideas to Portuguese artists and craftsmen and thus contributed to the development of a Renaissance visual culture in Portugal.
The following topics would be of particular relevance:
- Travels of Portuguese intellectuals and artists to other European regions, and the presence of foreign intellectuals in Portugal.
- Humanism at Coimbra and other educational institutions. The establishment of humanistic disciplines, such as Greek Studies.
- Construction of (private) libraries and collections in Portugal and the relation of such collections to artistic and literary production.
- Portuguese humanism and current international philosophical, political or theological discussions, such as the debates of Erasmians and Anti-Erasmians.
- Translations to and from Portuguese.
- Relations between the visual arts and humanistic literature in Portugal; the role of humanists in contemporary artistic production (iconographic programmes, book illustrations, etc.).
- Analogies and tensions between the classical past and Portuguese nationalism. Concepts such as imitatio and renovatio in the light of Portuguese humanistic discourses and artistic production.
- The role of humanism in the dissemination of discourses about the new discoveries.
The volume will be edited by Maria Berbara (Rio de Janeiro), Karl Enenkel (Leiden) and Alicia Montoya (Groningen) and is scheduled to appear in 2011. Proposals, about 300 words should be sent electronically no later than June 1st 2009 either to
or to
Advisory Board
K. van Berkel (University of Groningen)
F. Egmond (Rome)
A. Grafton (Princeton University)
A. Hamilton (Warburg Institute)
G.L. Heesakkers (Leiden)
H.A. Hendrix (Utrecht University)
F.J. van Ingen (Amsterdam)
J.I. Israel
M. Jacobs (Free University of Brussels)
K.A. Ottenheym (Utrecht University)
K. Porteman (Leuven)
E.J. Sluijter (University of Amsterdam)
B. Westerweel (Zegveld)
General Information about Intersections or specific issues of the series are to be had from:
Prof. Dr. Karl Enenkel (general editor)
Institute of Classical Studies
Department of Latin and Neo-Latin Literature
University of Leiden
P.O.Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
e-mail: K.A.E.Enenkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl
tel.: 0031 71 - 5272668 or 0031 71- 8890826
Dr. Jan L. de Jong (editorial secretary)
Institute for the History of Art and Architecture,
Groningen University,
P.O. Box 716,
9700 AS Groningen,
The Netherlands,
e-mail: J.L.de.Jong@let.rug.nl
tel.: 0031 50 - 3636091, fax: 0031 50 - 3637362
