Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus in The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume XI (672pp.)

This edition of Milton’s Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and of his Uncollected Letters, will appear as 672 pp. of The Complete Works of John Milton Volume XI, eds. Gordon Campbell and Edward Jones (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016). A diplomatic Latin text and a new facing English translation are complemented by a detailed Introduction and commentary that situate Milton’s Latin letters in relation to the classical, pedagogical and essentially humanist contexts at the heart of their composition. Now the art of epistolography advocated and exemplified by Cicero and Quintilian and embraced by Renaissance pedagogical manuals is read through a humanist filter whereby, via the precedent (and very title) of Epistolae Familiares, the Miltonic Liber is shown to engage with a neo-Latin re-invention of the classical epistola that had come to birth in quattrocento Italy in the letters of Petrarch and his contemporaries. At the same time the Epistolae are seen as offering fresh insight into Milton’s views on education, philology, his relations with Italian literati, his blindness, the poetic dimension of his Latin prose, and especially his verbal ingenuity as the ‘words’ of Latin ‘Letters’ become a self-conscious showcasing of etymological punning on the ‘letters’ of Latin ‘words’. The edition also announces several new discoveries, most notably its uncovering and collation of a manuscript of Henry Oldenburg’s transcription (in his Liber Epistolaris held in Royal Society, London) of Milton’s Ep. Fam. 25 (to Richard Jones). Oldenburg’s transcription (from the original sent to his pupil Jones) is an important find, given the loss of all but two of the manuscripts of Milton’s original Latin letters included in the 1674 volume. The edition also presents new evidence in regard to Milton’s relationships with the Italian philologist Benedetto Buonmattei, the Greek humanist Leonard Philaras, the radical pastor Jean Labadie (and the French church of London), and the elusive Peter Heimbach.

An English Source for a Latin Text? Wind Prognostication in Oxford, Bodleian MSS Hatton 115 and Ashmole 345

This article focuses on a type of prognostication that bases its predictions on the behavior of the wind during the twelve nights of Christmas and in particular on the relationship between the Old English version in Oxford, Bodleian, Hatton 115, and a fourteenth/fifteenth-century English text in Latin of the same prognostication, which appears in Oxford, Bodleian, Ashmole 345, fol. 69r. The wind prognostication in Ashmole 345 is remarkably similar to the twelfth-century OE version in Hatton 115, fol. 149v, to the extent that one might be tempted to argue for direct transmission, if it were not for the large temporal gap between the two manuscripts and for the fact that the two texts are being transmitted in two different languages. Interestingly the Latin text in A contains an Old English word that may make us reconsider the relationship between the two manuscripts and may shed light on the reception and transmission of Old English and prognostication by the wind between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries in English monastic centers.

Re-negotiating Ideologies of Bilingualism on the Margins of Education

This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article highlights the incongruence between the language at home and the language of the school and posits that the relationship between language use at school and in the wider community needs to be problematised and questioned far more than has been done thus far. This study questions whether school-based ideologies and school-based practices are re-negotiated or contested on the margins of education and whether this re-negotiation and contestation plays an important role in whether a young person chooses to use Welsh or English outside of school. It will be argued that recreational spaces, even though loosely connected to schools as institutions, function as more open spaces where institutional ideologies are actively reworked and renegotiated, either through choosing to use English or by mixing and blending different aspects of linguistic resources, or by re-negotiating and questioning which version of Welshness is more valuable, ‘the removed and authentic’ (as seen at the Welsh school) or the ‘new and hybrid’ as seen at the Youth-Club.

Poetry and feminine crafts in the letters of the young Marquise of Alorna (1750-1839)

abstract : Taking as a starting point the association between embroidery and language conveyed by the Greek myth of Filomela and Procne, this article examines the relationship between social status and ornaments like embroidery and lace. In order to illustrate this relationship an example is selected form the letters exchanged between the Marquise of Alorna and her Father where a connection is established between the production of these 'feminine' crafts, women's culture and womens writing, in the XVIIIth Century

Érasme en français : édition critique de la "Paraphrase sur l’epistle de saint Paul l’apostre aux Roumains" d’Hubert Kerssan (1526)

La contribution intellectuelle d’Érasme de Rotterdam (ca 1466-1536), en particulier dans les domaines exégétique, philologique et littéraire, a été décisive pour l’histoire des idées et l’évangélisme humaniste. Ses "Paraphrases sur le Nouveau Testament", visant principalement à clarifier le propos des saintes Écritures, représentent l’aboutissement de tout son travail exégétique. Davantage qu’un commentaire savant, elles ont contribué à diffuser la piété et le savoir biblique chez les laïcs, ce qui explique le franc succès qu’elles ont remporté au XVIe siècle. Toutefois, la question de leur réception et de leur diffusion en langue française reste encore peu explorée. La "Paraphrase sur l’épître de Paul aux Romains" a eu une importance toute particulière dans le contexte de la Réforme religieuse. Elle a été traduite du latin au français dans un manuscrit rédigé en 1526 par Hubert Kerssan, chanoine de Nivelles, dans le Brabant wallon. Destinée sans doute à un usage privé ou, du moins, à une diffusion plus restreinte, cette traduction est restée dans l’ombre jusqu’à aujourd’hui et son existence même est encore inconnue de la critique, d’où notre projet de la rendre accessible grâce à l’établissement d’une édition critique. Ce travail éditorial a été l’occasion d’étudier la traduction de Kerssan en regard du texte original, ce qui nous a permis de déterminer comment elle s’en distingue, de même que de réfléchir au choix du mode de diffusion manuscrit dans le contexte humaniste du XVIe siècle. Après près de cinq siècles, le manuscrit de Nivelles peut enfin acquérir une certaine visibilité. Il saura contribuer à l’étude de la réception et de la diffusion de la pensée érasmienne dans les milieux francophones en Europe ainsi qu’aux problèmes théologiques et culturels posés par l’œuvre d’Érasme.

Modest Prats, Engrunes i retalls

Presentació de l'obra 'Engrunes i retalls. Escrits de llengua i cultura catalanes' de Modest Prats

Català als salons Éclairés [Ressenya del llibre Partinuples: précis sur la romance catalane; Histoire du vaillant chevalier Tirant le Blanc: facsímils d'unes desconegudes impressions franceses de 1779 i 1783]

Ressenya del llibre Partinuples: précis sur la romance catalane; Histoire du vaillant chevalier Tirant le Blanc: facsímils d'unes desconegudes impressions franceses de 1779 i 1783. L’obra és un compendi sobre la llengua i la literatura catalanes i un resum del Tirant lo Blanc

Cercanías al misterio: la historiografía antigua y un libro de Eutropio en el Colegio del Rosario

El presente artículo postula algunas reflexiones teóricas e historiográficas sobre los métodos y los procedimientos tanto narrativos como filosóficos leídos en los historiadores de la Antiguedad. También hace, este texto, una revisión historiográfica de las principales corrientes y los principales autores de la ciencia histórica occidental de los tres últimos siglos, proponiendo que acaso el ánimo de originalidad que impulsó a muchos de estos movimientos intelectuales —la filología germánica del siglo XVIII, la Ilustración, el romanticismo, el positivismo, la escuela de Annales, etc.— tuviera un acervo precursor, quizás inconsciente, en el trabajo de historiadores del mundo Antiguo, como en el caso de ese Eutropio al que aquí se traduce del latín.-----This article proposes some theoretical and historiographical thoughts about both narrative and philosophic methods and procedures read in the Ancient historians. A historiographical review of the main currents and authors of the west historic science in the last three centuries is also carried out, proposing that the intent of originality that inspired many of such intellectual movements –18th century Germanic Philology, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Positivism, School of Annales, etc.– could have had a precursor heritage, unconsciously possibly, in the works of the Ancient world historians, as is the case of Eutropius, translated here from Latin.

Evaluación de la ciencia y tecnología como instrumento de intervención del Estado en la Política Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación

El uso de instrumentos y directrices en la política pública para la modelación de los resultados de la actividad científica y tecnológica ha sido frecuente en el Estado colombiano. Este trabajo bajo la ‘teoría de la regulación’ de Black, examina el Modelo de Medición de Grupos de Investigación y de calificación de Revistas Científicas –Publindex- de Colciencias, como instrumentos de intervención del Estado, fundados en el uso de indicadores bibliométricos y cienciométricos. Para ello, se da respuesta a interrogantes referidos a la auto-organización de la ciencia; su relación con el Modelo de Grupos de Investigación, la influencia que dicho modelo tiene sobre la libertad de investigación; las implicaciones que tiene el otorgar categoría o status a los Grupos por actos estatales y la conveniencia de que el Estado tenga un sistema de incentivos para el examen de información científica y técnica originada en indicadores científicos, entre otros. Se busca en síntesis, aportar elementos que permitan, desde una perspectiva sistémica e interdisciplinaria explicar algunas de las razones por las cuales los elementos involucrados en la estructuración de la normativa de ciencia y tecnología, pueden inducir a afectaciones negativas y positivas en el quehacer científico y tecnológico.

Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes: 25 anys de recerca en filologia catalana

Article sobre l'Institut de llengua i Cultura Catalanes (ILCC) que parla sobre el per què de la creació d'un centre de recerca en filologia catalana, sobre les característiques i recursos, l' activitat investigadora del centre, la tasca docent de l'ILCC, les activitats de tranferència i les publicacions de l' ILCC amb motiu dels 25 anys d' existència de l' ILCC