Latin and Coptic. Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio; Alessia Pezzella

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-122-2

Latin and Coptic. Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact

Authors

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0610-9448

Alessia Pezzella

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6612-3204

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-122-2

Keywords:

latin, coptic, late antique and Byzantine Egypt

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Texts. Antiquity, Middle Ages and Humanism

Pages: 228

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-28100

Abstract: This volume is the first work devoted to the contacts between Latin and Coptic in late antique and Byzantine Egypt. It follows in the footsteps of a renewed interest in this multilingual and multicultural area, but it approaches an untapped theme aiming to show that it can profitably be explored. The papers examine different type of evidence on the basis of a multi-perspective approach. Some of them deal with wide-ranging issues, such as the presence of Latin in monastic or scholastic contexts alongside local varieties, some others deal with specific subjects, such as the use of Latin in a certain milieux or in specific documents. All papers show that the contact between languages, scripts and cultures took many forms depending on various factors.

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Author Biographies

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, University of Naples Federico II

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio is Full Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, where she is also Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project PLATINUM (Papyri and LAtin Texts: INsights and Updated Methodologies. Towards a Philological, Literary and Historical Approach to Latin Papyri – ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983). Her research focusses on Latin literary texts on papyrus and on ancient education and grammatical tradition. She has published a number of articles and monographs, including Artes grammaticae in frammenti. I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui su papiro: edizione commentata (De Gruyter 2015). She is the editor of the Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP), forthcoming with CUP.

Alessia Pezzella, University of Naples Federico II

Alessia Pezzella obtained her PhD in Philology at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ with a bursary funded by the PLATINUM project and is currently collaborating on the revision of the CLTP vol. 1 and the realisation of its index volume. Her research interest and works deal with Latin–Greek bilingualism and language contact in papyrus documents from the East.