Fiec Talk, May 9

As part of the ongoing series of online lectures celebrating the 75^th anniversary of FIEC (full program available at www.fiecnet.org/75-years-fiec), we are pleased to invite you to the next lecture :

Professor Carmen Codoñer Merino (University of Salamanca)

Humanismo : transiciones. Texto y contexto

May 9th, 2024, at 7 pm CEST (Central European Summer Time)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85188579883?pwd=uk2eVAoGNKjgtaCCNj9oDNhdJGKHpA.1

English abstract: Humanism: transitions. Text and context

Transitions between two historical periods are usually marked by important events. On other occasions, changes are perceived, but we do not have objective data to delimit or to frame a change which, despite this, is perceptible. Philology, which focuses on the study of texts, inseparable from the context in which they are generated, can help to recognize more clearly the historical changes.

Spanish abstract: Humanismo : transiciones. Texto y contexto

Generalmente las transiciones entre dos épocas suelen estar marcadas por importantes acontecimientos. En otras ocasiones, se perciben cambios, pero no contamos con datos objetivos que delimiten, que enmarquen un cambio que, a pesar de ello, es perceptible. La filología, centrada en el estudio de los textos, inseparables del contexto en que se generan, puede contribuir a reconocer con más claridad los cambios históricos. 

Carmen Codoñer Merino is Professor Emerita at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she has trained numerous disciples, who today occupy important positions in various Spanish and Latin American universities. Her works cover a wide range from language to literature and from the Roman Republican period to Renaissance Humanism. Her contributions to the medieval Latin lexicon are especially notable, as well as to the study of the grammatical and linguistic works of the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe..