Prof. Dr. Jan Papy
Contact
Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae
Latijnse literatuurstudie / Latin Literature
Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 (PO Box 3311)
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel. +32 16 32 49 13
Fax +32 16 32 49 09
e-mail
Jan Papy
Jan
Papy has a Ph.D. in Classics (1992) and MA in Philosophy (1996), and is
currently Research Professor of Neo-Latin at the Catholic University of
Leuven.
He has published on Italian humanism, Humanism in the Low Countries, Intellectual
History and Renaissance Philosophy in the Low Countries (16th-17th centuries).
He is co-editor of the international journal Humanistica Lovaniensia.
Journal of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven University Press); member of the
scientific board of the electronic journal Camenae
(Paris IV-Sorbonne); member of the editorial board of the international
journal Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook (Brill Publishers,
Leiden); member of the editorial board of the international journal LIAS:
Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources (Peeters
Publishers, Leuven) and member of the editorial board of the journal Handelingen
van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde
en Geschiedenis.
Furthermore, Jan Papy is treasurer and member of the Executive Committee
of the International
Association for Neo-Latin Studies (since 1991).
Current
Research
One of Jan Papy's current research topics is the critical edition
and study of Justus Lipsius’ Manuductio ad Stoicam philosophiam, together
with Prof. Dr. Jill Kraye (The Warburg Institute, London).
Most
significant publications
- Iusti Lipsi Epistolae. Pars XIII (1600), ed. J. Papy, Koninklijke
Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Brussel: Paleis
der Academiën, 2000), 386p.
- ‘Justus Lipsius, his Dogs, and his Scholarship: Humanist Tradition in Text and Image and its Echoes in Rubens’s Four Philosophers’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 63 (1999), 167-298.
- ‘Erasmus’s and Lipsius’s Editions of Seneca: A ‘Complementary’ Project?’, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, 22 (2003), 10-36.
- Karl A.E. Enenkel - Jan Papy (eds.), Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance, Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, 6 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006), XIV - 334p.
- ‘Erasmus, Europe and Cosmopolitanism:the Humanist Image and Message in his Letters’, in Enrico Pasini - Pietro B. Rossi (ed.), Erasmo da Rotterdam e la cultura europea. Atti dell’ Incontro di Studi nel V centenario della laurea di Erasmo all’ Università di Torino (Torino, 8-9 settembre 2006) / Erasmus of Rotterdam and European Culture. Proceedings of the Symposium held on the Occasion of the 500th Anniversary of Erasmus’ Doctorate in Turin (Turin, September 8-9, 2006), Millennio Medievale, 79 (Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008), pp. 27-42.