Collaborations with Antiquity: Medieval and Early Modern
Teleological accounts of national literary histories valorise the ‘conquest' of the vernacular and celebrate great individual ‘overreachers'. This workshop instead investigates the ways culture, languages, people and ideas continue to work together with and through antiquity in medieval and early modern Europe. This workshop brings together scholars in Early Modern Studies, Modern Languages, History and Classics. It aims to move beyond established approaches (‘quotation studies', ‘classical reception', ‘individual authorship', ‘allusion and intertextuality' ) to explore complex stories of collaboration with antiquity. We hope that this inter-disciplinary approach will create new ways of understanding the cultures, intellectual histories, and creative literature and material culture of medieval and early modern Europe.
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Workshop hosted by the St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA).