Announcement Calenda 1199258
The history of ancient Greek reception in pre-modern Western Europe has so far focused almost exclusively on the transmission of ancient Greek texts. However, long before the renaissance of Greek language teaching, numerous vernacular works, often illustrated, contained elaborate representations of ancient Greece. The ERC AGRELITA studies a large corpus of French-language literary works produced between 1320 and 1550 in France and Europe, before the first direct translations from Greek into French, and the images offered by their manuscripts and printed books. As part of the project " The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities ", directed by Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, residencies for visiting researchers are available in 2025.
