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Lucubrationes Neolatinae
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Kivistö, Sari
Lucubrationes Neolatinae. Readings of Neo-Latin Dissertations and Satires
Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten - Suomen Tiedeseura
Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 134
Vantaa 2018, 244 pp.
Lucubrationes Neolatinae. Readings of Neo-Latin Dissertations and Satires
Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten - Suomen Tiedeseura
Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 134
Vantaa 2018, 244 pp.
This volume centers on selected readings of Neo-Latin dissertations, satires
and other texts written during the period between 1500 and 1800. Neo-Latin
texts offer highly significant, in their own time widely influential and today little
studied documentation for European scholarship and literary cultures. The
printed dissertation was the predominant form of academic publication in seventeenth-
century Germany. Generally master’s dissertations of this period were
conventional pieces of scholarship that summarised traditional knowledge and
scientific discussion of their day. Dissertations were rather short, that is, from
twenty to sixty pages, but they were also later bound in larger collective volumes.
The dissertations were not intended to demonstrate novelty as much as
they sought to display the extensive learnedness of the respondent or the presider
who had written the dissertation. The professor who acted as praeses supervised
the dissertation and chaired the disputation in which the respondens (the student)
defended his arguments. As Neil Kenny notes, the contribution of the professor
could be anything from actual authorship to a quick glance over the text.
ISBN | 978-951-653-427-8 |
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ISSN | 0069-6587 |
Publisher | Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten - Suomen Tiedeseura |
Series | Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum |
Published (year) | 2018 |
Cover | Softcover |
Type of Binding | Softcover binding |
Languages | english |
Disciplines | Linguistics, Literary Research |