When Greece Flew Across the Alps: The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe

by Federica Ciccolella and Texas A&m University

When Greece Flew Across the Alps offers a reconstruction of the status of Greek studies in the vast territory lying between Spain and Russia and Austria and the Scandinavian Peninsula, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although closely related to the revival of Greek studies in fifteenth-century Italy, European Hellenism acquired distinctive peculiarities due to the influence of the Reformation, the advent and spread of printing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004179429
• ISBN13: 9789004179424
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"