Sponsoredandsupportedby:ConferenceVenue:Claudiasaal,Herzog-Friedrich-Str.3/2ndfloor6020InnsbruckOrganisationandContact:NicolasDeteringUniversitätKonstanz–NeuereDeutscheLiteraturnicolas.detering@uni-konstanz.deClementinaMarsicoLudwigBoltzmannInstitutfürNeulateinischeStudien,Innsbruckclementina.marsico@neolatin.lbg.ac.atIsabellaWalser-BürglerLudwigBoltzmannInstitutfürNeulateinischeStudien,Innsbruckisabella.walser@neolatin.lbg.ac.at

EarlyModernDiscoursesonEurope:

RepresentationsofCommunityandCommonIdentity(1450–1750)

Innsbruck,30thNovember–2ndDecember2017

ConferenceVenue:UniversityofInnsbruck,ClaudiasaalHerzog-Friedrich-Straße3/2,6020Innsbruck

Ludwig Boltzmann InstitutNeulateinische Studien

Thursday,30thNovember201708:30–09:00 Registration09:00–09:15 WelcomeAddressandConferenceOpeningSession1:TranslatingEurope:LatinitasandthePluralityofVernacularsChair:IsabellaWalser-Bürgler(Innsbruck)09:15–10:00 SarahKnight (Leicester):Necalibigentium,quaminnostraBritannia: Attitudes to

NationalandContinentalLatinityinEarlyModernEngland10:00–10:45 GabriellaMazzon(Innsbruck):LanguageAttitudesandNational Identities inEarly

ModernBritain10:45–11:00 CoffeeBreak11:00–11:45 ClementinaMarsico(Innsbruck):CommonIdentityvs.Nationalism:TheConceptof

EuropeinRenaissanceGrammaticalReflection11:45–12:30 Niall Oddy (Durham): ‘Europe’ in Early Modern French Writing: Where Was the

WordFoundandWhatDiditMean?12:30–14:00 LunchBreakSession2:ImaginingEurope:AllegoriesofIdentityandAlterityChair:WilliamBarton(Innsbruck)14:00–14:45 NicolasDetering(Konstanz)/DennisPulina(Freiburgi.Br.):EarlyPersonifications

ofEuropeinNeo-LatinPanegyricstoCharlesVandFrancisI14:45–15:30 Ronny Kaiser (Berlin): Tota caduca et dehiscens – Europe’s Critical Situation in

AndrésLaguna’sEuropa(1543)15:30–15:45 CoffeeBreak15:45–16:30 AndreasAbele(Tübingen):ACrusaderastheFatherofEurope?GodfreyofBouillon

onMunich’sJesuitStage(1596)16:30–17:15 MarionRomberg(Vienna):ThePersonificationofEuropeandherThreeSisters in

FolkCulture:APictorialDiscourseKeynoteLecture17:30–18:30 Michael Wintle (Amsterdam): The Early Modern Iconography of Europe: Visual

ImagesandEuropeanIdentitiesFriday,1stDecember2017Session3:OrganizingEurope:Law,Politics,andEarlyModernState-BuildingChair:FlorianSchaffenrath(Innsbruck)09:15–10:00 MariannePade(Rome):GovernmentandIdentityin15th-CenturyItaly

10:00–10:45 Giovanni Rossi (Verona): Legal Science at the Dawn ofModern Europe: From iuscommunetoNationalLaws

10:45–11:00 CoffeeBreak11:00–11:45 Isabella Walser-Bürgler (Innsbruck): Political Geographies: Geopolitical

ConstructionsofEuropein17th-CenturyLatinSources11:45–12:30 Stefan Ehrenpreis (Innsbruck) / Niels Grüne (Innsbruck): Variations on Shared

Principles?IdeasaboutaCommonPoliticalCultureinEarlyModernEurope12:30–14:00 LunchBreakSession4:CentralizingEurope:EarlyModernConstructionsofPeripheriesandBoundariesChair:NicolasDetering(Konstanz)14:00–14:45 Ovanes Akopyan (Innsbruck): Europe or Not? Early 16th-Century European

DescriptionsofMuscovyandtheirRussianResponses14:45–15:30 MartinsLaizans(Riga):NewConstitutionofLaresinTerraHyperboreana:deiureet

defacto15:30–16:15 LucieStorchová(Prague):ConceptualizingEuropeintheHumanistPolemiconthe

OriginsofBohemians(1615–1617)16:15–16:30 CoffeeBreak16:30–17:15 PeterHanenberg(Lisbon):LisbonandtheEarlyModernDiscourseonEurope17:15–18:00 Piotr Chmiel (Warsaw): How Did the Venetian Envoys to the Ottoman Empire

DefineEuropeanditsDivisions(1573–1645)?20.00 ConferenceDinner(RestaurantLöwenhaus)Saturday,2ndDecember2017Session5:BalancingEurope:History,StateTheoryandJournalismChair:ClementinaMarsico(Innsbruck)9:00–9:45 FedericoAboaf(Venice):Europa,RespublicaChristianaandtheConceptofʻBalanceʼ

inaLatinTranslationofGuicciardini’sStoriad’Italia9:45–10:30 VolkerBauer(Wolfenbüttel):TheAggregationofEurope:TheRengerSeries(1704-

1718)10:30–10:45 CoffeeBreak10:45–11:30 EnricoZucchi(Padua/Turin):EuropeanNetworkandNationalIdentity:TheItalian

Journalism in the Early 18th Century from Il Giornale de’ letterati d’Italia (1710–1740)toIlGrangiornaled’Europa(1725–1726)

11:30–12:00 Conclusions