- Universität Innsbruck
Institut für Klassische Philologie und Neulateinische Studien
Langer Weg 11
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- University of Graz, Classics, Graduate StudentUniversity of Innsbruck, Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, Bereich Gräzistik und Latinistik, Faculty Memberadd
- Classics, Ancient History, Greek Epigraphy, Latin Epigraphy, Papyrology, Medieval Latin & Neo-Latin, and 9 moreClassical philology, Hesiodic Poetry, Medieval Latin Literature, Greek Lyric Poetry, Byzantine Studies, Greek Epic, Medieval Latin, Greek Literature, and Latin Literature(Classical philology, Hesiodic Poetry, Medieval Latin Literature, Greek Lyric Poetry, Byzantine Studies, Greek Epic, Medieval Latin, Greek Literature, and Latin Literature)edit
Research Interests: Medieval Literature, Late Middle Ages, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Crusades, and 14 morePilgrimage, Epistolary literature, History of Crusades, Epistolography, Islam and Christianity: relations and exchange of ideas, Crusades and the Latin East, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Medieval Latin, Latin epistolography, Islam and Christianity, Medieval pilgrimage, Medieval Travels and Travellers, Medieval Epistolography, and Riccoldo da Montecroce(Pilgrimage, Epistolary literature, History of Crusades, Epistolography, Islam and Christianity: relations and exchange of ideas, Crusades and the Latin East, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Medieval Latin, Latin epistolography, Islam and Christianity, Medieval pilgrimage, Medieval Travels and Travellers, Medieval Epistolography, and Riccoldo da Montecroce)
(Pilgrimage, Epistolary literature, History of Crusades, Epistolography, Islam and Christianity: relations and exchange of ideas, Crusades and the Latin East, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Medieval Latin, Latin epistolography, Islam and Christianity, Medieval pilgrimage, Medieval Travels and Travellers, Medieval Epistolography, and Riccoldo da Montecroce)
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Medieval Literature, Byzantine Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Byzantine Studies, and 12 moreByzantine History, Islam and Christianity: relations and exchange of ideas, Medieval Latin, Late Medieval History, Islam and Christianity, Demetrius Cydones, Medieval and Renaissance Greek Manuscripts; Greek Paleography; Byzantine Scriptoria, Manuel II Palaeologus/ Palaiologos, John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354), Polemics and Apologetics, Medieval and Renaissance Greek-Latin Translations, and Riccoldo da Montecroce(Byzantine History, Islam and Christianity: relations and exchange of ideas, Medieval Latin, Late Medieval History, Islam and Christianity, Demetrius Cydones, Medieval and Renaissance Greek Manuscripts; Greek Paleography; Byzantine Scriptoria, Manuel II Palaeologus/ Palaiologos, John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354), Polemics and Apologetics, Medieval and Renaissance Greek-Latin Translations, and Riccoldo da Montecroce)
(Byzantine History, Islam and Christianity: relations and exchange of ideas, Medieval Latin, Late Medieval History, Islam and Christianity, Demetrius Cydones, Medieval and Renaissance Greek Manuscripts; Greek Paleography; Byzantine Scriptoria, Manuel II Palaeologus/ Palaiologos, John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354), Polemics and Apologetics, Medieval and Renaissance Greek-Latin Translations, and Riccoldo da Montecroce)
Research Interests: Teacher Education, Pedagogy, Teaching of Foreign Languages, Second Language Teacher Education, Teaching Translation, and 12 moreTeacher Training, Language Assessment, Foreign language teaching and learning, Methodology and Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching, Language Teaching, Classical test theory, Student Grading and Assessment, Classical Philology, Ancient Greek Teaching Methods, Latin Teaching, Teaching Latin, and Latin and Greek teaching(Teacher Training, Language Assessment, Foreign language teaching and learning, Methodology and Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching, Language Teaching, Classical test theory, Student Grading and Assessment, Classical Philology, Ancient Greek Teaching Methods, Latin Teaching, Teaching Latin, and Latin and Greek teaching)
(Teacher Training, Language Assessment, Foreign language teaching and learning, Methodology and Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching, Language Teaching, Classical test theory, Student Grading and Assessment, Classical Philology, Ancient Greek Teaching Methods, Latin Teaching, Teaching Latin, and Latin and Greek teaching)
Petrarch’s ‘Itinerarium ad sepulcrum Domini nostri Yehsu Cristi’ (1358) is noteworthy among late medieval travel and pilgrimage literature for its unusual features, such as its epistolary form, its detailed descriptions of Italian... more
Petrarch’s ‘Itinerarium ad sepulcrum Domini
nostri Yehsu Cristi’ (1358) is noteworthy among late
medieval travel and pilgrimage literature for its unusual
features, such as its epistolary form, its detailed descriptions
of Italian antiques, and its author never actually having
visited the Holy Land. However, by comparison with
other works from the same period, such as the similarly
structured letter dealing with the famous ascent of Mount
Ventoux (‘Ad familiares’ 4.1) as well as ‘De otio religioso’,
it can be demonstrated that Petrarch combines elements of
pilgrimage literature and Neoplatonic philosophy in order
to make a statement about the relationships between classical
learning, Christian faith, and the human soul’s spiritual
journey to God.
nostri Yehsu Cristi’ (1358) is noteworthy among late
medieval travel and pilgrimage literature for its unusual
features, such as its epistolary form, its detailed descriptions
of Italian antiques, and its author never actually having
visited the Holy Land. However, by comparison with
other works from the same period, such as the similarly
structured letter dealing with the famous ascent of Mount
Ventoux (‘Ad familiares’ 4.1) as well as ‘De otio religioso’,
it can be demonstrated that Petrarch combines elements of
pilgrimage literature and Neoplatonic philosophy in order
to make a statement about the relationships between classical
learning, Christian faith, and the human soul’s spiritual
journey to God.
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Latin Literature, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Pilgrimage, Medieval Latin Literature, and 10 morePetrarch, Literary Theory, Latin Language and Literature, Neoplatonism, Christian Neoplatonism, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Medieval Latin, Medieval pilgrimage, Petrarca, and Francesco Petrarca
At the beginning of Venantius Fortunatus’ collected poems we read two complementary poems on a church dedicated to St. Andrew by a certain bishop Vitalis. These poems have been interpreted as the author’s earliest, written before he left... more
At the beginning of Venantius Fortunatus’ collected poems we read two complementary poems on a church dedicated to St. Andrew by a certain bishop Vitalis. These poems have been interpreted as the author’s earliest, written before he left Italy. However, close analysis of the gallery of saints in carm. 1.2 suggests both a connection with Tridentum and with the contemporary discourse on Chalcedonianism. In combining literary and historical arguments, this article argues that they may have been written during Venantius’ journey to Gaul, in Aguntum, at the behest of schismatic bishop Vitalis of Altinum. Since Vitalis had probably recommended Venantius to his Austrasian colleagues, and had thus promoted the poet’s career in Gaul in the first place, the first poem of the collection has been carefully positioned to honour him.
Research Interests: Latin Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval Latin Literature, Early Medieval History, Late Antiquity, and 10 moreLate Antique Literature, Medieval Latin, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ravenna, Venantius Fortunatus, Archaeology of Roman Raetia, non-Chalcedonian Christianity, Council of Chalcedon, Latin lyric poetry, and Three Chapters Controversy
This paper aims to revise and reconstruct the highly corrupt text of Heinrich Isaac’s Marianic motet O decus ecclesiae by examining the only manuscript source anew. It can be demonstrated that the text is written in elegiac distichs and... more
This paper aims to revise and reconstruct the highly corrupt text of Heinrich Isaac’s Marianic motet O decus ecclesiae by examining the only manuscript source anew. It can be demonstrated that the text is written in elegiac distichs and artfully blends Christian ideas and classicising language. It is therefore highly probable that its author was one of the leading humanist poets at the court of Emperor Maximilian I and that the elegy was commissioned for a representative event.
Research Interests: Renaissance Studies, Medieval Latin Literature, Renaissance Literature (Renaissance Studies), Habsburg Studies, Neo-latin literature, and 8 moreRenaissance music, Renaissance literature, Heinrich Isaac, Renaissance Music Theory, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Medieval Latin, Latin Elegiac Poetry, and Kaiser Maximilian I.
Until now, the short cult hymns to Liber, Mars and Juno in the Appendix Claudianea have mostly been seen as rhetorical school exercises. Yet a philological-historical analysis shows that they could be remains of occasional poetry from... more
Until now, the short cult hymns to Liber, Mars and Juno in the Appendix Claudianea have mostly been seen as rhetorical school exercises. Yet a philological-historical analysis shows that they could be remains of occasional poetry from everyday life. The hymns are structured according to the Roman festival calendar and, on the basis of language and content, should probably be dated to the final phase of public non-Christian cult practice in the fourth century. The anonymous poet was familiar with classical Greek and Latin poetry, but reveals weaknesses in Latin prosody and metre. It can therefore be supposed that he should be identified as one of the many Graeco-Egyptian ‘wandering poets’, but probably not as Claudian himself.
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Research Interests: Late Middle Ages, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Medieval Latin Literature, Autobiography, Petrarch, and 13 moreAugustine, Augustine of Hippo, Epistolography, Neoplatonism, Christian Neoplatonism, Medieval Latin, Latin epistolography, Rupert of Deutz, Petrarca, Epistolography, pragmatic letter-writing, 13th-16th centuries, Francesco Petrarca, Medieval Epistolography, and Ricoldo da Monte Croce
In the existing scholarship on the Greek epigram to Queen Elizabeth I attributed to Pietro Bizzarri, the oldest manuscript witness, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek cod. phil. gr. 299 has, until now, gone entirely unnoticed. This... more
In the existing scholarship on the Greek epigram to Queen Elizabeth I attributed to Pietro Bizzarri, the oldest manuscript witness, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek cod. phil. gr. 299 has, until now, gone entirely unnoticed. This manuscript solves several textual problems in the early modern printed editions and gives new insights into the date, authorship, historical context, and early circulation of the epigram. Taking into account the readings of the Viennese manuscript, this article presents a new critical edition of the poem alongside a new English translation and notes. Furthermore, the poem's attribu-tion to the Italian humanist and spy Pietro Bizzarri (1525-ca. 1586), called into question in earlier studies, can now be confirmed. The epigram can now also be placed within a broader context of continental humanist interest in Tudor England.
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Analysis of the language of Sappho frg. 55 V., reveals close connections to the language of early sepulchral epigram. However, Sappho subverts the conventions of the epigraphic genre omitting to name an addressee, whereby she enacts a... more
Analysis of the language of Sappho frg. 55 V., reveals close connections to the language of early sepulchral epigram. However, Sappho subverts the conventions of the epigraphic genre omitting to name an addressee, whereby she enacts a poetic damnatio memoriae.
In yet another twist, the Hellenistic poet Nossis apparently reversed the Sapphic model to produce her own auto-epitaph, thus founding a new epigrammatic sub-genre.
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Un’approfondita analisi linguistica di Saffo, fr. 55 V., permette di dimostrare lo stretto rapporto del componimento con la tradizione dell’epigramma sepolcrale arcaico ; tuttavia, omettendo il nome del destinatario, Saffo sovverte le convenzioni del genere e mette in atto una sorta di damnatio memoriae poetica. La poetessa ellenistica Nosside, a sua volta, rovescia il modello di Saffo per produrre il suo autoepitaffio, gettando così le basi di un nuovo sottogenere epigrammatico.
In yet another twist, the Hellenistic poet Nossis apparently reversed the Sapphic model to produce her own auto-epitaph, thus founding a new epigrammatic sub-genre.
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Un’approfondita analisi linguistica di Saffo, fr. 55 V., permette di dimostrare lo stretto rapporto del componimento con la tradizione dell’epigramma sepolcrale arcaico ; tuttavia, omettendo il nome del destinatario, Saffo sovverte le convenzioni del genere e mette in atto una sorta di damnatio memoriae poetica. La poetessa ellenistica Nosside, a sua volta, rovescia il modello di Saffo per produrre il suo autoepitaffio, gettando così le basi di un nuovo sottogenere epigrammatico.
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Odysseus im Ural: Ein antiker Held als Identifikationsfigur für Kriegsheimkehrer im Werk von Johann Leopold Bogg (1919–2010) und Rudolf Kalmar (1900–1974), in: Stefan Tilg / Anna Novokhatko (Hgg.), Antikes Heldentum in der Moderne: Konzepte, Praktiken, Medien (Pontes IX), Freiburg u.a. 2019, 57–74.more
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Research Interests: Greek Literature, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Epigraphy, Reader Response, Callimachus, and 9 moreGreek and Latin Epigram, Hellenistic poetry, Epigram (Classics), Ancient Greek Epigraphy, Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Greek Epigram, Hellenistic epigram, and Greek and Latin Epigraphy of Asia Minor
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Research Interests: Late Middle Ages, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Pilgrimage, Medieval Latin Literature, Pilgrimage Routes, and 10 morePetrarch, Literary Theory, Travel Literature, Neoplatonism, Christian Neoplatonism, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Medieval Latin, Letters, Medieval pilgrimage, and Petrarca
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4.-5. April 2019 University of Innsbruck With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive literary genre like never before. The texts within... more
4.-5. April 2019
University of Innsbruck
With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive literary genre like never before. The texts within this genre contributed to increasing geographical and ethnographical knowledge about the East, to the evolution of vernacular literature, and to the development of an ever more empirical world view, which ultimately feeds into early Humanism and the Italian Renaissance (e.g. Petrarch).
However, despite the significance of these texts, they have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. Many are still awaiting modern critical editions and commentaries and are rarely studied in their own right as literary texts. This neglect appears all the more regretful owing to the fact that so many of these writers were leading theologians and thinkers of their time. With many of these individuals coming out the Dominican and Franciscan Orders, who extolled high learning, these travellers were scholars in their own right and contributed a vast amount to the development of Latin literary forms, styles and strategies during this period. By taking late Medieval Latin travel literature as a discrete literary genre and analysing the ways in which the travellers and pilgrims formulated their travel experiences in text we can learn much about the medieval world view.
University of Innsbruck
With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive literary genre like never before. The texts within this genre contributed to increasing geographical and ethnographical knowledge about the East, to the evolution of vernacular literature, and to the development of an ever more empirical world view, which ultimately feeds into early Humanism and the Italian Renaissance (e.g. Petrarch).
However, despite the significance of these texts, they have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. Many are still awaiting modern critical editions and commentaries and are rarely studied in their own right as literary texts. This neglect appears all the more regretful owing to the fact that so many of these writers were leading theologians and thinkers of their time. With many of these individuals coming out the Dominican and Franciscan Orders, who extolled high learning, these travellers were scholars in their own right and contributed a vast amount to the development of Latin literary forms, styles and strategies during this period. By taking late Medieval Latin travel literature as a discrete literary genre and analysing the ways in which the travellers and pilgrims formulated their travel experiences in text we can learn much about the medieval world view.