Classical Scholarship and Its History : : From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray / / ed. by Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Briggs, Ward,; Butterfield, David,; Clackson, James,; Clarke, Michael,; Elsner, Jaś,; Gibson, Roy,; Hall, Edith,; Hallett, Judith P.,; Hardwick, Lorna,; Harrison, Stephen,; Kaster, Robert A.,; Pelling, Christopher,; Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina,; Stray, Christopher,; Whitaker, Graham,
• HerausgeberIn: Harrison, Stephen,; Pelling, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics – Scholarship in the Making , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 428 p.)

It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally changed the way the history of British classics and its study is viewed. A generation ago the history of classical scholarship still consisted largely of accounts of particular scholars and groups of scholars written by other scholars from a broadly biographical and ‘heroic individual’ perspective. In these works scholars often sought to find their own place in the great tradition, choosing to praise or blame those whose work they admired or deprecated, and to identify with particular schools or trends, and there were few attempts to provide a broader and less prosopographical perspective. Almost all the chapters in the volume originated as papers at a conference in honour of the honorand, and have been improved both by discussion there and by the rigorous peer-review process conducted by the two experienced editors. It covers various aspects of classical reception, with a particular focus on the history of scholars, their institutions, and their writings; the main focus is on the UK, but there are also substantial engagements with continental Europe and (especially) the USA; the period covered runs from the Renaissance to the present. The cast contains a number of world-famous names. Unusually, the volume also contains an essay by the honorand, but we are very keen to include this, especially as it focusses on the topic of scholarly collaboration.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Orientation and Origins -- Tracking Classical Scholarship: Myth, Evidence and Epistemology -- Part II: Early Modern -- Classics Invented: Books, Schools, Universities and Society 1679–1742 -- The Vulgate Text of Seneca’s De beneficiis, 1475–1650 -- From Dares Phrygius to Thomas Jefferson, via Joseph of Exeter: A Study in Classical Reception -- Part III: Victorian Cambridge and Oxford -- The Shilleto Phenomenon -- Dangerous Lunatics: Comparative Philology in Cambridge and Beyond -- John Conington as Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford -- Part IV: History of the Book/Commentary -- Fifty Years of Green and Yellow: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series 1970–2020 -- Gomme’s Thucydides and the Idea of the Historical Commentary -- ‘Pointing the Moral’ or ‘Adorning the Tale?’ Illustrations and Commentary on Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum in 19th and Early 20thcentury American Textbooks -- Part V: International Connections -- The Founding of the American Philological Association -- Gender and the Classical Diaspora -- Room with a Few: Eduard Fraenkel and the Receptions of Reception -- Part VI: Academic Practices -- Congratulations and Celebrations: Unwrapping the Classical Festschrift -- Working Together: Classical Scholars in Collaboration -- Complete List of Publications of Christopher Stray -- List of Contributors -- Index