Early Modern Humanist Canons in East-Central Europe, Budapest, 2025

Az NKFIH Tudományos Mecenatúra pályázati programjának keretében az ELTE HTK Irodalomtudományi Kutatóintézetének Reneszánsz Osztálya és a Digitális Örökség Nemzeti Laboratórium 2025. szeptember 17–19. között nemzetközi konferenciát rendezett Early Modern Humanist Canons in East-Central Europe. Approaches to Reading and Re-reading Neo-Latin Texts (Kora újkori humanista kánonok Kelet-Közép-Európában. Közelítések a neolatin szövegek olvasásához és újraolvasásához) címmel.

A rendezvény helyszíne az ELTE HTK Zenetudományi Intézetének Bartók-terme volt. A háromnapos tanácskozás célja az volt, hogy új szempontokkal világítsa meg a kora újkori humanista kánonok működését Kelet-Közép-Európában, különös tekintettel a nyelvi, műfaji, felekezeti, mediális és intézményi keretekre.

The Renaissance Department of the ELTE HTK Research Institute of Literary Studies, in collaboration with the National Laboratory of Digital Heritage, hosted an international conference called Early Modern Humanist Canons in East-Central Europe. Approaches to Reading and Re-reading Neo-Latin Texts from September 17 to 19, 2025, funded by the National Research, Development, and Innovation Fund.

The event took place in the Bartók Hall at the ELTE HTK Institute of Musicology. The three-day conference aimed to offer new insight on the workings of early modern humanist canons in East-Central Europe, with a focus on the language, genre, confessional, medial, and institutional contexts.

Szilágyi Emőke Rita (MTA BTK “Momentum” – Humanist Canons and Identities Research Group)
Opening of the Conference

Lucie Storchová (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy)
“Patria cui nondum similem dedit atque secundum” or How Bohemian Humanists Created a Canonical Author around 1550

Lucie Storchová's lecture examines how Bohuslaus of Hassenstein became a canonical writer in the Bohemian countries after the mid-16th century, about 50 years after his death. Following a brief introduction to his life and work, the main focus will be on how a group of humanist editors who studied in Wittenberg and later resided in Prague collaborated to publish Hassenstein's opera omnia between 1562 and 1577. The major goal is to show how they tried to make Hassenstein a key character in the Bohemian literary canon and a direct ancestor of their own cultural identity in the paratexts of these editions.