Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose -
An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Classical and Medieval Latin
Oxford, 3-5 April 2003
Organisers: Jim Adams, Michael Lapidge, Christine Rauer, Tobias Reinhardt
Sponsored by the British Academy, the Jowett Copyright Trust, and
the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
More detailed information and a registration form can be downloaded from the conference website (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/prose/) or is available from Dr. Tobias Reinhardt Fellow and Tutor in Classics Somerville College, Oxford OX2 6HD tobias.reinhardt@somerville.ox.ac.uk
Programme
Thursday, 3rd April
10.45-11.00 | Introduction | 11.00-11.30 | J. Penney (Oxford)
The traditional element in archaic Latin prose | 11.30-12.00 | J. Powell (London)
Cicero's adaptation of archaic legal Latin in the De legibus | 12.00-12.15 | Discussion | 12.15-2.00 | Lunch | 2.00-2.30 | J. Briscoe (Manchester)
The language and style of the fragmentary Republican historians | 2.30-3.00 | R. Sharpe (Oxford)
The language of Bede | 3.00-3.15 | Discussion | 3.15-4.00 | Tea | 4.00-4.30 | W. Berschin (Heidelberg)
Realistic Writing in the 10th Century: Gerhard of Augsburg's Vita S. Uodalrici (A.D. 982-993) | 4.30-5.00 | S. J. Harrison (Oxford)
The poetics of fiction: poetic influence on the language of Apuleius | 5.00-5.15 | Discussion | 6.00-7.30 | Drinks Party at Corpus Christi College | |
Friday, 4th April
9.00-9.30 | G. Hutchinson (Oxford)
Pope's spider and the style of Cicero's speeches | 9.30-10.00 | G. Orlandi (Milan)
Medieval prose rhythm: quantity or cursus? | 10.00-10.15 | Discussion | 10.15-11.00 | Coffee | 11.00-11.30 | R. Mayer (London)
On Models of 'Latin Prose' | 11.30-12.00 | R. M. Thomson (Tasmania), William of Malmesbury and the Latin classics - further thoughts | 12.00-12.15 | Discussion | 12.30-3.30 | Lunch and Extended Break | 3.30-4.00 | H. Pinkster (Amsterdam)
Textual structure and cohesion in Pliny the Elder | 4.00-4.30 | D. Shanzer (Cornell)
The style of Gregory of Tours | 4.30-4.45 | Discussion | | |
Saturday, 5th April
9.00-9.30 | D. Russell (Oxford)
Omisso speciosiore stili genere: some changes of register in Quintilian | 9.30-10.00 | C. Dionisotti (London)
Translator's Latin | 10.00-10.15 | Discussion | 10.15-11.00 | Coffee | 11.00-11.30 | D. Langslow (Manchester)
'Langues réduites au lexique': the languages of Latin technical prose | 11.30-12.00 | T. Reinhardt (Oxford),
The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero | 12.00-12.15 | Discussion | 12.30-2.00 | Lunch | 2.00-2.30 | H. Hine (St Andrews)
Poetic influence on prose: the case of the younger Seneca | 2.30-3.00 | M. Lapidge (Notre Dame)
Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose | 3.15-3.45 | Discussion and Conclusion | |
