Latinitas Perennis ― The Continuity of Latin Literature

The study of Latin literature has generally focused on one of three periods: Roman Antiquity, the high Middle Ages, or the Golden Age of Humanism. The three-volume series beginning here starts a new perspective on Latin literature as an ever-evolving but single continuum throughout its two millennia of use in Western Europe. The 10 papers are from an April 2005 conference in Brussels. Only names are indexed. The other two volumes, Appropriation by Latin Literature and The Property of Latin Literature are projected to appear in 2008 and 2010. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Wim Verbaal, Ph.D. (2000) in Classical Philology, Ghent, is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Ghent. He has published on intellectual history and poetics of the 12th century including The Council of Sens Reconsidered: Masters, Monks, or Judges (Church History, 74-2005).Yanick Maes, Ph.D. (2003) in Classical Philology, Ghent, is doctor assistant in the department of Latin & Greek at Ghent University. He is working and publishing on suicide in Vergil, Lucan, the role of exercitation in Quintilian, the use of allusion, and the sociology of literature.Jan Papy, Ph.D. (1992) in Classical Philology, Leuven, is Research Professor of Neo-Latin at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published on Italian humanism, intellectual history and Renaissance Philosophy in the Low Countries including (with K.A.E. Enenkel) Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance (Brill, 2005).