Roundtable: Late Renaissance Texts (1559–1648) and Connected Histories II

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This two-part roundtable explores how texts trace connections and interactions across the boundaries retrospectively defined by the literary historiographies of western European nation-states and by traditional comparative literature. The second roundtable discusses: Theodor de Bry's Grands Voyages (published from 1590 at Frankfurt in Latin and other languages) and the questions it raises about the New World's place in European literary history; Johann Wanckel's 1601 Latin translation (published at Torgau, Saxony) of Guevara's Reloj, which gave rise to further vernacular versions east of Germany; the 1594 Czech edition of Cassiodorus and Eusebius (published at Prague by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín) which points to connections between Saxony and Bohemia; Calepino's Latin dictionary, adapted and published with Portuguese and transliterated Japanese in Amakusa (Japan) in 1595 and in many other editions of the period, and a major transnational publishing phenomenon of early modern Europe and its overseas connections.

Sub Unit

• Discipline Representative / Comparative Literature

Organizer

• Jessica Lynn Wolfe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair

• Warren Boutcher, Queen Mary University of London

Discussants

• Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University

• Farkas Gabor Kiss, ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar

• Lucie Storchová, Czech Academy of Sciences

• Michael W. Wyatt, Independent Scholar