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GrECI Online Galleries on Europeana
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections. View the collection (four galleries) that GrECI has curated and shared here:
1st Gallery: Books printed in Sixteenth-Century Europe
2nd Gallery: Language and Identity: Uses of Ancient Greek for the Creation of Identity in Early Modern Europe
3rd Gallery: Reception of Greek Culture in Sixteenth-Century France: Between Religious Suspicion et Political Use
4th Gallery: Material Culture: Impressions of Ancient Greek Sites on European Travelers of the Grand Tour
Recent Publications by the Consortium
Theodoropoulos, Alexandros, 2025. Lucian’s Hermotimus (1522) in the Context of Religious Reform in 16th Century Northern Europe (blog). https://greci-twinning.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/lucians-hermotimus-1522-in-the-context-of-religious-reform-in-16th-century-northern-europe_-blogpost_ath.pdf
Leontidou, Eleni, 2024. Johann Eck’s Edition of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Mystical Theology (1519): Teaching the Unknowable [under review]
Gazzini, Chiara, 2024. “At the Dawn of Early Modern Hellenism: Manuel Chrysoloras and the Revival of Greek Studies in Renaissance Europe.” Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism (blog). https://earlymodernhellenism.org/2024/10/01/at-the-dawn-of-early-modern-hellenism-manuel-chrysoloras-and-the-revival-of-greek-studies-in-renaissance-europe/.
Constantinidou, Natasha, 2023. “Chrestien Wechel (c. 1495–1554) and Greek Printing in Paris: Education, Networks and Questions of Orthodoxy” in Trilingual Learning. The Study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin World (1000-1700), edited by Raf Van Rooy, Peter Van Hecke and Toon Van Hal, 137-78, Turnhout: Brepols.
Lamers, Han, 2023. “Ascanio Persio and the Greekness of Italian” in Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Renaissance Italy, edited by Alessandra Petrocchi, and Joshua Brown, 359–87. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30. Turnhout: Brepols.
Lamers, Han, 2023. “A Homeric Epic for Frederick Henry of Orange: The Cultural Affordances of Ancient Greek in the Early Modern Low Countries”. Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies 72: 319–44.
Lamers, Han, 2023. “Negotiating Foreign Influence in Fascist Italy: Nicola Festa on Greek Learning in Renaissance Humanism”. Italian Studies 78, no. 3: 344-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2266067.
Papers & Conference Participation by the Consortium
Leontidou, Eleni, 2024. “Johann Eck’s edition and commentary of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Mystical Theology (1519): its Renaissance Context and Medieval Influences,” at: Sixteenth-Century Society Conference (Toronto, 31 October – 2 November). [upcoming event]
Manzetti, Cristina, 2024. “Storia Alternativa del Grand Tour: Le Sensazioni dei Viaggiatori Europei in Grecia”, at: IX Convegno Internazionale di Studi: I Viaggi Sono i Viaggiatori. Circolazione di Persone, di Beni e di Idee (Paestum, 17-19 October).
Barral-Baron, Marie & Ana Carmona, 2024. “La Recherche au Sein du Projet GrECI,” at: Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs et Chercheuses (Frac Franche-Comté – Cité des arts, Besançon, 27 September).
Barral-Baron, Marie, 2024. La Grèce en Héritage, (Dole, France, 26 September).
Lamers, Han, 2024. “Competing for Greekness: French Humanism, Hellenism, and European Identities” at: Sixth Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies: Identities in the Early Modern Period. (AIAS, Aarhus, 25-27 September).
Manzetti, Cristina, 2024. “A Deep Map to Explore Identity: The Case of the Grand Tour in Greece” at: Sixth Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies: Identities in the Early Modern Period (AIAS, Aarhus, 25-27 September).
Gazzini, Chiara, 2024. “Eastern Contributions to Identity Construction in the Early Modern West: The Case of Manuel Chrysoloras” at: Sixth Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies: Identities in the Early Modern Period (AIAS, Aarhus, 25-27 September).
Lamers, Han, 2024. “Who Owns Greek Culture? Competing Claims to Cultural Ownership in Sixteenth-Century Europe.” at: Radboud Ancient and Medieval Lecture Series. (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 9 September).
Constantinidou, Natasha & Martine Furno (IHRIM), 2024. “Les Alphabets Grecs Imprimés à Lyon au XVIe Siècle” at: Journée de l’ étude Biblyon: Livre, Littérature et Illustration à Lyon au XVIe Siècle (ENSSIB, Lyon, 28 June).
Leontidou, Eleni, 2024. “Humanism and Scholasticism in Johann Eck’s Edition of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Mystical Theology (1519),” at: GrECI Research Meeting III (University of Oslo, Oslo, 24 May).
Manzetti, Cristina, 2024. “An Emotional Map of Greece through the Eyes of European Travellers” at: The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe. New Approaches and Perspectives organized by GrECI (Norwegian Institute, Athens, 1-2 February).
Lamers, Han, 2024. “The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe. An Introduction” at: The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe. Norwegian Institute (Norwegian Institute, Athens, 1-2 February).
Barral-Baron, Marie, 2024. Erasme Helléniste, (La Maison d’Erasme, Anderlecht-Brussels, Belgium, 6 May).
Carmona Aliaga, Ana, 2024. “Appréhender et Diffuser la Culture Grecque: Le Travail de Compilation de Loys Le Roy” in La Somme des Parties. (Dé)faire et (Re)penser Collections et Compilations entre Moyen Âge et Première Modernité. Journées internationales de l’Unité de Recherche Transitions (Université de Liège, Liège, 6 May).
Lamers, Han, 2024. Shades of Greek: Renaissance Hellenism Revisited: The Case of French Humanism (University of Ioannina, Ioannina, 5 February).
Gazzini, Chiara, 2023. “Manuel Chrysoloras’ letters: A Critical Edition and a Study of their Reception in 16th-century Europe” at: Networking & Training Workshop organized by GrECI (Université de Franche Comté, Besançon, 14-15 December).
Carmona Aliaga, Ana, 2023. “Religious Conflicts through the Prism of Greek Heritage: Loys Le Roy, Humanist at the Collège Royal” at: Networking & Training Workshop organized by GrECI (Université de Franche Comté, Besançon, 14-15 December).
Constantinidou, Natasha, 2023. “Variations of Layout in Greek Textbooks in 16th century Greek Editions in France” at: Orients Typographiques Imprimer les Langues Orientales entre Europe(s) et Orient(s), XVIe -XIXe siècle [Typographic Orient Printing «Oriental» Languages, between Europe(s) and the East(s) | 16th-19th centuries] (Paris, Université Paris Cité, 12-15 December).
Gazzini, Chiara, 2023. The Letters of Manuel Chrysoloras (1360–1415): a Critical Edition and a Study of Their Reception in 16th-Century Europe (University of Oslo [IFIKK], Oslo, 28 November).
Barral-Baron, Marie, 2023. 6 July 1535: The Execution of Thomas More [with a Study of the Place of References to Greek Literature in More’s Last Writings] (Collège des Bernardins, Paris, 17 October).
Manzetti, Cristina, 2023. “Mapping the Impressions of Grand Tour Travellers in Greece” at: Paving the Way to the Rediscovery of Ancient Greece: Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Other Travellers (15th -19th century). New Approaches and Methods (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, 12-13 October).
Barral-Baron, Marie, 2023. “Les Granvelle et l’Héritage Grec” at: La Nuit des Chercheurs at the Palais Granvelle (Palais Granvelle, Besançon, 29 September).
Constantinidou, Natasha, 2023. “Can we Differentiate between Books Printed for Greeks and Books for non-Greeks in 16th-century Venice?” at: The Greek Books in the 16th Century, between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 15-17 September).
Constantinidou, Natasha, 2023. “Learning Greek with Sammelbandae” at: The Sixth Sammelband 15-16 Meeting (Paris and Saint-Quentin, 15-16 June).
Constantinidou, Natasha, 2023. “Greek Books at the Frankfurt Book Fair, ca. 1564-1600’ at: The ‘Greek Books and Europe’s Common Culture’ Research Meeting organised by GrECI (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1-2 June).
Constantinidou, Natasha, 2023. “Books for Greeks and Books for non-Greeks in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Cultural and Intellectual Transference and Exchange” at: The International Conference Αρχέτυπα στις Eλληνικές Bιβλιοθήκες: Καταγραφή, Tεκμηρίωση, Iστορική Πλαισίωση [Recording and Contextualising Incunables in Greek Libraries] (Aikaterini Laskarides Foundation, Athens, 17-18 March).
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