Author Description

Distant empires, buried signs: in search of new worlds of Latin in the early modern period : introduction / Yasmin Haskell -- Other Latins, other cultures / Ann Moss -- Latin and the vernacular : the silence at the beginning of Bruni's Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum / Siobhan O'Rourke and Alison Holcroft -- De ortu et occasu linguae Latinae : the Latin language and the origins of the concept of language death / John Considine -- Boileau's Art poétique latinized / Christopher Allen -- Gacon's Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) Art poétique / translated into Latin by François Gacon (1667-1725) ; text edited and annotated by Christopher Allen and Frances Muecke -- From virile eloquence to hysteria : reading the latinity of Heloise in the early modern period / Juanita Feros Ruys -- Latin in Cuauhtémoc's shadow : humanism and the politics of language in Mexico after the Conquest / Andrew Laird -- New world 'Ethiopians' : slavery and mining in early modern Brazil through Latin eyes / Alexandra de Brito Mariano -- "Sub herili venditur hasta" : an early eighteenth-century justification of the slave trade by a colonial poet / John Gilmore -- Can the subaltern speak Latin? : the case of Capitein / Grant Parker -- Latin terms and periphrases for Native Americans in the Jesuit relations / John Gallucci -- History and poetry in Philippus Meyerus's Humanist Latin portraits of the Prophet Mohammed and the Ottoman rulers (1594) / Marc Laureys