Baroque Latinity

巴洛克拉丁风格

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S006214/1
负责人：
Gesine Manuwald
金额：
$ 4.35万
依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS006214%2F1
关键词：
Baroque Latinity

项目摘要

Baroque (c. 1580-c. 1720) is important as the earliest aesthetic - and cultural - movement to have global impact, spread as it was through dynastic ambition, mercantilism, and missionary fervour. Latin, as a supranational language, played a major role in propagating this style. In literature, Baroque was characterized by rhetorical devices, especially through exaggerated forms such as paradoxes, anachronisms, antitheses, and oxymora that roused the emotions and engaged the senses. Interfacing with vernacular literature, the Neo-Latin literature of the 17th century contributed not only to the development of drama, but to the rise of the novel, as well as to the evolution of more traditional forms such as the epic and the epigram. Beyond belles lettres, Latin supplied lyrics to musical compositions of the time and was employed in the visual arts. In politics, Latin served as the language of treatises and contracts; in religion, it furthered the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. It became the language of international scientific communication, used to announce and explain new discoveries. The ability to write in the common European language of scholarship was an indicator of educational achievement in an age when rhetorical and grammatical competence was demanded.Because 'Baroque' post-dates the art to which it was applied, coming into familiar use only since the nineteenth century, and because 17th-century culture was seen traditionally as a decline after the flourishing of Renaissance Humanism, this term fell out of fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. However, there has been a renewal of interest in Baroque during the past decade, due to scholarly initiatives that challenge traditional - especially European-centred - historical narratives. The term has become a focus of discussion among art historians, but literary scholars are only beginning to enter the debate. It is urgent now to move the research agenda forward - to expand on the collection of articles edited by Jan Bloemendal and Nigel Smith, Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy (2016) - and to uncover aspects of a period in literature that have been forgotten, but also while looking beyond periodization in an attempt to comprehend how literary practice traverses geographic and linguistic borders. A re-examination is required from a broad range of international experts to reinvigorate and challenge past thoughts around the Baroque in literature. Our network will bring together a group of UK and Continental scholars, as well as librarians, to uncover aspects of Baroque that have been lost and to offer new understandings of literary practice and intellectual movements, rather than simply to provide further information for period-based cultural history. Our project will generate fruitful and novel interaction not only by amalgamating ongoing research, but by searching out forgotten texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of Baroque writing.Our first objective, through this timely re-examination, is to spin off major, long-term projects, to be determined through confronting major questions relating to Latin writing and the artistic concept of the Baroque, and the use of Latin in the expression of the new ideas of the Baroque era - in politics, commerce, science, and art. By amalgamating the individual research of network participants in our workshops, we will be able to draw up a perceptive and inclusive outline of the issues underlying Baroque Latinity, and thus be able to identify the most promising pathways for long-term projects.Our second objective, through our public engagement activities, is to raise the profile of 17th-century Latin and to signal its importance in the formation of modern society. Latin is often thought of as an antiquated ('dead') language, while its use and influence lasted well into the modern era - indeed, the majority of all surviving Latin texts come from the 17th century.

巴洛克（约1580年至约1720年）作为最早具有全球影响力的美学和文化运动非常重要，它通过王朝野心、重商主义和传教热情而传播。拉丁语作为一种超国家语言，在传播这种风格方面发挥了重要作用。在文学中，巴洛克的特点是修辞手段，特别是通过夸张的形式，如悖论、不合时宜、对立和矛盾，激发情感并吸引感官。 17世纪的新拉丁文学与白话文学的结合，不仅促进了戏剧的发展，而且促进了小说的兴起，以及史诗和警句等更传统形式的演变。除了纯文学之外，拉丁语还为当时的音乐作品提供歌词，并应用于视觉艺术。在政治上，拉丁语是论文和合同的语言。在宗教方面，它进一步推进了罗马天主教的反宗教改革。它成为国际科学交流的语言，用于宣布和解释新发现。在一个要求修辞和语法能力的时代，用欧洲通用的学术语言写作的能力是教育成就的一个指标。因为“巴洛克”晚于它所应用的艺术，直到由于传统上认为 17 世纪文化是文艺复兴人文主义繁荣之后的衰落，因此这个术语在 1960 年代和 1970 年代不再流行。然而，在过去十年中，由于挑战传统（尤其是以欧洲为中心）历史叙述的学术举措，人们对巴洛克风格的兴趣重新燃起。这个术语已经成为艺术史学家讨论的焦点，但文学学者才刚刚开始进入争论。现在迫切需要推进研究议程——扩大扬·布洛门达尔和奈杰尔·史密斯编辑的文章集，《欧洲巴洛克和古典主义悲剧中的政治与美学》（2016）——并揭示某一时期文学中的某些方面。被遗忘的同时，也超越了分期，试图理解文学实践如何跨越地理和语言的边界。需要广泛的国际专家进行重新审视，以重振和挑战过去围绕巴洛克文学的思想。我们的网络将汇集一群英国和欧洲大陆的学者以及图书馆员，以揭示巴洛克风格中已失落的方面，并提供对文学实践和知识运动的新理解，而不仅仅是为基于时期的进一步信息提供信息。文化历史。我们的项目将产生富有成效和新颖的互动，不仅通过合并正在进行的研究，而且通过寻找被遗忘的文本，以便对巴洛克写作有更全面的理解。通过及时的重新审查，我们的首要目标是剥离主要的，长期项目，将通过面对与拉丁语写作和巴洛克艺术概念有关的重大问题来确定，以及在表达巴洛克时代的新思想中使用拉丁语 - 在政治，商业，科学和文化领域。艺术。通过在我们的研讨会上合并网络参与者的个人研究，我们将能够对巴洛克拉丁性的潜在问题制定一个具有洞察力和包容性的轮廓，从而能够确定长期项目最有希望的途径。我们的第二个目标通过我们的公众参与活动，旨在提高 17 世纪拉丁语的知名度，并表明其在现代社会形成中的重要性。拉丁语通常被认为是一种过时（“死亡”）的语言，但它的使用和影响一直持续到现代 - 事实上，所有幸存的拉丁语文本中的大多数都来自 17 世纪。