Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature

Isabella Walser-Bürgler, Ph.D. (2014), is Key Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck (Austria). She has published monographs, editions, translations, and articles on the Neo-Latin novel, the early modern discourse of Europe, and early modern Latin university orations.

• Editorial NoteAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 Early Modern Latin: A European Language and a Language for ‘Europe’3 Antecedents of the Early Modern Discourse of Europe4 From Zero to Hero: Conceptualisations of Europe in the Early Modern Period5 PerspectivesReferences

"Isabella Walser-Bürgler’s book aims to demonstrate the genesis and development of an important discourse, the history of European integration, that Neo-Latin sources can elucidate in a much deeper way than only the use of vernacular sources can do. She provides a smörgåsbord of titles and quotations that undoubtedly will serve this purpose very well and makes us understand that a rich source material awaits those who immerse themselves in the treasuries of libraries and archives. The possibilities for new understanding not only for the past but also for topics that engage us directly today are legion." Arne Jönsson in BMCR 22.06.44