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Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2009, Uppsala in Sweden was the venue of the fourteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Uppsala conference have been collected in this volume under the motto “Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere – Reception and Innovation”. Ninety-nine individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.

Neo-Latin literature --- Neo-Latin language --- Latin language, Medieval and modern --- Latin literature --- History and criticism --- Conferences - Meetings --- Congresses --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General --- Latin language, Medieval and modern - Congresses --- Latin literature - History and criticism - Congresses

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Hauptbeschreibung Die Debatte über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens ist durch die moderne Hirnforschung in jüngster Zeit wieder ins Zentrum des Interesses gerückt. Ihre Anfänge liegen im antiken Epos, wo das Verhältnis von menschlicher Entscheidungsfreiheit und göttlicher oder übernatürlicher Einflußnahme ausgelotet und mit den Mitteln der Dichtung dargestellt wird. Dem Glauben an die Wirksamkeit von Göttern oder numinosen Kräften kommt in der Antike eine gewisse Plausibilität zu. Allerdings ist das Eingreifen des Göttlichen in die Wirklichkeit durch Rationalität konzeptionalis

Latin literature --- Littérature latine --- History and criticism --- Congresses. --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Rome --- Religion --- Religion -- Philosophy. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Littérature latine --- Congrès --- Latin literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- Rome - Religion - Congresses --- vergleichende Literaturgeschichte --- Gott --- Mensch --- Schicksal --- Epik

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"Holy war and just war are unfortunately not only keywords for recondite excursions into the past, but equally for problems of the present. This applies as well for the attempts of rulers to justify war through state or ruling ideology but also on religious grounds, whether from conviction or in order to cloak economic and political interests. The present volume summarizes the results of a conference held in Vienna, which the editors, Johannes Koder and Ioannis Stouraitis, hosted in May of 2011. The symposium was held in the context of a research project with the topic "Holy War? A study on Byzantine perceptions and concepts of war and peace in the period from the late 11th to the early 13th century." This project was housed at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. The arc of the presentation topics spanned chronologically from seventh to the fifteenth century and thematically from the Christian and Islamic legitimation of war ("crusade", "holy war") to late antique and medieval imperial ideology to the motivations which were offered or imposed upon soldiers and civilian populations in order to make them amenable to the sorrow, sacrifices and privations which are the accompaniments of war: the promises of worldly rewards were complemented by the expectation of recompense in the afterlife. The results--many are new, some surprising--at one level reference the medieval period and its late antique intellectual foundations and are yet, in their critical evaluation of the ideological basis of war, of astonishing contemporary relevance."--Publisher's website.

Theological anthropology --- Christian sociology --- Christian literature --- Latin literature --- Civilization --- Anthropologie théologique --- Sociologie religieuse --- Littérature chrétienne --- Littérature latine --- Civilisation --- Christianity --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Roman influences --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Influence romaine --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome --- Empire byzantin --- History, Military. --- Religion. --- Politics and government. --- Histoire militaire --- Religion --- Politique et gouvernement --- War --- Religious aspects --- Congresses. --- History of doctrines. --- Roman influences. --- History, Military --- Congresses --- Christianity. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Anthropologie théologique --- Littérature chrétienne --- Littérature latine --- War - Religious aspects - Christianity - Congresses. --- Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines. --- Christian sociology - History. --- Christian literature - History and criticism. --- Latin literature - History and criticism. --- Civilization - Roman influences. --- Byzance --- Guerre --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military. --- Rome - Religion. --- Rome - History. --- Rome - Politics and government.