From Chrysoloras' Latin to Erasmus' Greek: Renaissance classical bilingualism as a European phenomenon (1397-1536). KU Leuven
ERASMOS hypothesizes that in contrast to the tenet, the great age of Latin-Greek bilingualism, especially in its written form, is not to be situated in antiquity. Instead, classical bilingualism flourished in the Renaissance, a pivotal period in canonizing classics. After 1397, when M. Chrysoloras started teaching Greek in Florence, classical bilingualism developed into an authorial ideal championed by writers like Erasmus (d.1536). this ...