Baroque Latinity

巴洛克拉丁风格

• 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

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-c）1720年)是最早的美学和文化运动，具有全球影响，通过王朝的野心，重商主义和传教士的热情传播。拉丁语作为一种超国家的语言，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、时代错误、对立和矛盾，激发情感和参与感官。17世纪的新拉丁文学与本土文学相结合，不仅促进了戏剧的发展，也促进了小说的兴起，以及史诗和警句等传统文学形式的演变。除了美丽的字母，拉丁语为当时的音乐作品提供了歌词，并被用于视觉艺术。在政治上，拉丁语被用作论文和契约的语言；在宗教上，它推动了罗马天主教的反宗教改革。它成为国际科学交流的语言，用来宣布和解释新的发现。在一个要求修辞和语法能力的时代，用欧洲共同的学术语言写作的能力是教育成就的一个指标。由于“巴洛克”一词的使用时间晚于它所应用的艺术，直到19世纪才被人们熟悉使用，而且由于17世纪的文化在传统上被视为文艺复兴人文主义繁荣之后的衰落，这个词在20世纪60年代和70年代就不再流行了。然而，在过去的十年中，由于学术活动挑战了传统的-特别是以欧洲为中心的-历史叙述，对巴洛克风格的兴趣有所恢复。这个词已经成为艺术史学家讨论的焦点，但文学学者才刚刚开始参与辩论。现在迫切需要推动研究议程向前发展-扩大由Jan Bloemendal和Nigel Smith编辑的文章集，欧洲巴洛克和古典主义悲剧中的政治和美学(2016)-并揭示文学中被遗忘的时期的各个方面，但同时也要超越时期化，试图理解文学实践如何跨越地理和语言边界。需要广泛的国际专家重新审视，以重振和挑战过去关于文学巴洛克的思想。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，以揭示巴洛克已经丢失的方面，并提供对文学实践和知识分子运动的新理解，而不仅仅是提供基于时期的文化历史的进一步信息。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，而且通过搜索被遗忘的文本，以达到对巴洛克写作的更全面的理解。通过这次及时的重新审视，我们的第一个目标是衍生出重大的、长期的项目，通过面对与拉丁语写作和巴洛克艺术概念有关的主要问题，以及在政治、商业、科学和艺术中使用拉丁语表达巴洛克时代的新思想来确定。通过在我们的研讨会中整合网络参与者的个人研究，我们将能够起草一个具有洞察力和包容性的巴洛克拉丁问题纲要，从而能够为长期项目确定最有希望的途径。我们的第二个目标是通过我们的公众参与活动，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，然而它的使用和影响一直持续到现代——事实上，大部分幸存的拉丁语文本都来自17世纪。

项目成果

BAROQUE LATINITY: STUDIES ON 'BAROQUE' EUROPEAN NEO-LATIN LITERATURE

巴洛克拉丁性：“巴洛克”欧洲新拉丁文学研究

• 作者: Manuwald G