1st Edition
Philology in Europe before and after 1800 Change and Continuity
Points and Periods in Philology. 1
Laura Loporcaro and Paul Michael Kurtz*. 1
“La fureur d’innover”: Homer between Wolf, Villoison, and the Scholia. 94
Vyasa, One or Many? The Question of Authorship of the Mahabharata in European Scholarship. 151
The Latin Lexicon: Between Copia and Completeness. 184
Continuity and Change in the Apparatus around 1850. 214
The Grammar as A Philological Instrument: Some Reflections on Its Assets and Limitations. 249
Timely or Timeless? Controversies on the Language of Scholarship ca. 1800. 282
James Tod, his ‘Native Informants,’ and Another Philology. 380
Philologist Family Values: Arabists between Study and Community. 407
Philology and Collegiality. 438
Amnesia and the Apparatus: 467
Biography
Laura Loporcaro is a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University. She works on classical Latin literature and on the history of philology between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing particularly on the figure of Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824). She is the author of Reading Quintilian. Didactic Authority in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria (2025).
Paul Michael Kurtz is an associate research professor in history at Ghent University. A cultural, religious, and intellectual historian, he concentrates on the formation and circulation of knowledge about the ancient world both in and between Europe, the Middle East, and India from 1750 to 1950. His recent publications include Boschwitz on Wellhausen: The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany (2024).
