Lectori vago. Manuscripts, Libraries, and Classical Scholarship from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
Liber amicorum Luc Deitz
Christophe Marinheiro, Claude D. Conter (eds)
- Pages: 668 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:21 b/w, 63 col., 9 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English, French, German
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-62449-5
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Luc Deitz has served as Director of the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department at the National Library of Luxembourg since 1998. From 2009 onward, he has also been an Außerplanmäßiger Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Latin at the University of Trier. Prior to these appointments, he held academic positions at the universities of Constance, Luxembourg, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Trier, following major research fellowships at the Warburg Institute. His scholarship focuses on Renaissance Platonism, Neo-Latin philology, poetics and rhetoric, early modern intellectual history, and the study of Latin manuscripts.
This volume pays tribute to the exceptional career of Luc Deitz, shaped by intellectual depth and an insatiable curiosity. Inspired by Scaliger’s maxim “Utinam essem bonus grammaticus …”, Luc Deitz devoted his life to exploring the texts, ideas, and traditions that have shaped our culture. The contributions assembled here reflect the remarkable breadth of his interests. The section on Classical Scholarship from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period examines his work on Scaliger and Neo-Latin literature. The chapter Manuscripts and Libraries highlights his dedication to preserving and promoting Luxembourg’s manuscript heritage, while the section on Luxemburgensia explores the intellectual history of a region that has always been close to his heart.
A Few Preliminary Remarks
Luc Deitz, A Bibliography
Classical Scholarship from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Michael Embach, Der Kelte Bischof Israel – ein Hauptrepräsentant der Artes‑Studien im 10. Jahrhundert
Alex Langini, Les sépultures des abbés d’Echternach et le monument de Pierre Richardot
Charles Burnett, The Doublet and the Orator
Godefroid de Callatay & Colette de Callatay‑Van der Mersch, The Secret Diagrams of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Ingrid A. R. de Smet, Julius Caesar Scaliger’s Illustrious Women
Charles Taylor, The Iconography of Parts of Speech
Marc Laureys, Towards an Appraisal of Valens Acidalius’s Parodiae
Robert Seidel, The Interpretation of Disputations as an Interdisciplinary Challenge: Friedrich Gotthelf Gotter’s Dissertatio de ornatu orationis Germanicae (1711)
Gaston Mannes, “Latin me that,” or James Joyce Meets Luc Deitz
Manuscripts and Libraries
Isabelle Draelants, L’« horologium viatorum » et la roue des quaternités du manuscrit d’Echternach. Trier, Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek der Stadt, 1093/1694 gr. 2°
Bernhard Tönnies, Neu aufgefundene Fragmente der Copulata super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis des Lambertus de Monte Domini
Thibault Miguet, Aristote au Luxembourg. À propos d’un volume grec de l’abbaye de Clervaux
Christophe Marinheiro, La Logica Lovaniensis (L.P. 4165) et son contexte, ou comment cataloguer un hapax ?
Lydia Keilen, Coryciana – Hymnus 383. Ioannes Baptista Almadianus – Giovanni Battista Almadiano. « Arae Corycianae Apotheosis » – « Apothéose de l’autel corycien »
Johannes Schwind, Verstreute Gedichte von, an und auf Antonius Hovaeus
Thomas Falmagne, Nicolas Mameranus mémorialiste de la guerre de Charles‑Quint contre la France : l’apport d’un manuscrit retrouvé
George Hugo Tucker, Unearthing the Portable, Travelling Library of Joachim Du Bellay († Paris, 1 Jan. 1560), Poet of France and Rome
Max Schmitz, La « bibliothèque » de l’abbaye de Bonnevoie (16e siècle–1795)
Nadine Zeien, Catalogus Bibliothecae Montis Mariae. La bibliothèque du Mont‑Marie à Ansembourg
Peter Fritzen & Pia Jank, Sammeln und bewahren. Luc Deitz als Konservator der Abteilung Sammlung von Karten, Plänen, Atlanten und Ansichten der Nationalbibliothek Luxemburg
Luxemburgensia
Sam Mersch, Ein luxemburgisches Kulturdenkmal? Die Vita der Yolanda von Vianden im Lichte der luxemburgischen Sprachgeschichte
Tom Zago, Spectacles of the Letter
Claude D. Conter, Die Repräsentation des Militärs in der Luxemburger Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts