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Researchers of European Literary Identity, Cosmopolitanism and the Schools

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Report: Roundtable ‘Women as Authors of Latin Literature’

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On 11 March 2025, RELICS members Simon Smets and Alex Tadel organized a virtual roundtable on women as authors of Latin literature. Six impulse talks explored women’s Latin writing across historical periods, highlighting projects on early modern scientific texts, medieval women writers, digital linguistic datasets, collaborative research, and the historical contextualization of individual authors. Jane Stevenson also traced the development of the field, from its initial focus on fifteenth-century Italy to a broader geographical and chronological scope. The ensuing discussion emphasized the importance of integrating women’s Latin texts into educational curricula, fostering collaboration and mutual support among researchers, and addressing concerns about the potential career implications of specializing in women writers. The roundtable concluded with the hope that the exchange would inspire future collaborations.

In Focus

In Focus: The Dutch Humanist and the Strong Female Character

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each blog post one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Elodie Paillard on Roman literary drama.

In Focus: Was Roman literary drama ‘cosmopolitan’?

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each blog post one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Elodie Paillard on Roman literary drama.

In Focus: Travel and Cosmopolitanism: A Medieval View in Covid Times

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each blog post one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Klazina Staat on the medieval maps and... the covid- pandemic.

In Focus: From Slave to Poet: The Schoolmaster Juan Latino in Sixteenth-Century Granada

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Maxim Rigaux on the sixteenth-century poet Juan Latino.

Illustrated manuscript of Terence's comedies

In Focus: Cosmopolitanism on stage: how classical Latin literature formed our comic identity

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Chrysanthi Demetriou on cosmopolitanism and Roman comedy.

In Focus: The ‘Features’ of Cosmopolitanism: Computers & Latin Literary Studies

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Jeroen De Gussem on computers, stylometry and Latin literary studies.

In Focus: Palermo, cosmopolitanism at the crossroads

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The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Ivo Wolsing on the cosmopolitan culture of twelfth-century Palermo.