Texts and Contexts is an annual seminar sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies and devoted to Medieval and Renaissance books (manuscript and print) and the texts they transmit. The seminar also hosts the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, established in memory of the late Virginia Brown, who taught palaeography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for over 40 years. This year’s seminar will take place on Friday, October 23 in the Student-Alumni Council Room, The Ohio Union and will focus on the reception of ancient Greek literature, learning, and thought in medieval and early modern Latin Europe. John Monfasani (State University of New York, Albany) will deliver the Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture.
Program:
8:30 am - 9:00 am: Coffee, tea, and other refreshments
9:00 am - 10:00 am: SESSION I
Moderator: Michael Meckler (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies)
Greti Dinkova-Bruun (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
The Reception of Flavius Josephus in the Latin West
Lisa Devriese (KU Leuven)
Lost in Translation? Reading Aristotle’s Politica in the Latin Middle Ages
10:00 am - 10:30 am: Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: SESSION II
Moderator: Maurice Jensen (Universität Zürich)
Luigi Orlandi (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
Greek Philology in Italian Humanism: The Manuscripts of Andronikos Kallistos
Cecilia Sideri (University of Verona)
Indexing, Excerpting and Translating in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Cristoforo Landino's Greek Zibaldoni
William Little (The Ohio State University)
Domizio Calderini’s Translation of Pausanias
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Visit to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm: SESSION III
Moderator: Dana Munteanu (The Ohio State University)
Keith Sidwell (University College Cork)
Intimations of Lucianicity: New Dialogue Forms in the Italian '400 (and Beyond)
Fabio Pagani (Catholic University of America)
Between Philology and Philosophy: Gemistos Pletho and Renaissance Platonism
William Weaver (Baylor University)
Renaissance Discovery in Greek Texts: Erasmus’s Adages and Topical Invention
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm: Break
4:00-5:00: Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture
Introduction: Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University)
John Monfasani (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Fate and Free Will in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century
5:00 pm – Reception – The Faculty Club
