The Research Group “Classic and Medieval Studies” at the USC (GI-1908) is formed by researchers on Greek and Latin texts at the Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology at the University of Santiago (in its campuses of Santiago de Compostela and Lugo)
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Collective volume in memory of Manuel Cecilio Díaz y Díaz
The publishing house SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo has just released the volume Autori, testi e manoscritti fra la penisola iberica e l’Italia: da Gregorio Magno a Gregorio VII. In ricordo di Manuel Cecilio Díaz y Díaz, which contains several contributions consistent with the methodology and scholarly interests of Prof. Díaz y Díaz, who was Professor in the Department of Latin and Greek at the University of Santiago and one of the most distinguished medievalists in Europe. The book is the result of the conference of the same name held at the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (Florence) in March 2024.
In this volume, José Carracedo Fraga, Professor of Latin Philology and member of the CLASMED research group, examines the circulation of grammatical texts between Hispania and Italy in the Early Middle Ages, using as a case study the collection transmitted in the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7530. This manuscript, copied in Montecassino at the end of the eighth century, contains an extensive collection of school texts on the liberal arts, with a primary focus on grammar.
Joel Varela Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Latin Philology and also a member of the CLASMED research group, publishes a study on the Hispanic textual transmission of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Iob (ca. 540–604), one of the most widely cited and read works during the Middle Ages. The analysis shows that Hispanic manuscripts contain a number of previously unknown variants (biblical quotations according to the Vetus Latina rather than the Vulgate, Christological formulas that outside the Western churches could be interpreted in a Nestorian sense, etc.), which are undoubtedly authorial variants belonging to a non-final stage of Gregory the Great’s text. Other works by this author display similar variants, which may open the way for a more comprehensive analysis that would allow a better understanding of how the Gregorian works were composed and transmitted.
The link to the publication, which is open access, is available at: https://www.sismel.it/pubblicazioni/2115-autori-testi-e-manoscritti-fra-la-penisola-iberica-e-litalia-da-gregorio-magno-a-gregorio-vii-in-ricordo-di-manuel-cecilio-daz-y-daz
Lecture by Professor Edmondson
Next Tuesday, October 28th, at 12 noon in the Sala Académica of the Faculty of Philology, Professor Henry T. Edmondson III, from Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville (Georgia, USA), will give a lecture on “Aristotle and Leisure.”
Seminar Épica flavia e interludios virgilianos
On Monday, 22 September 2025, the Faculty of Philology at USC will host the sixth edition of the international research meetings organised by the Group for Classical and Medieval Studies (Clasmed, GI–1908). The seminar Épica flavia e interludios virgilianos will...
V Encuentro de Actualización Científica de ClasMed – Lunes 26 de mayo
El próximo lunes 26 de mayo se celebrará el V Encuentro de Actualización Científica del grupo de investigación ClasMed, una jornada dedicada al intercambio académico en torno a la lingüística latina y griega, en memoria de la profesora Concepción Cabrillana. La...
New book on ancient Greek religion
Professor Ángel Ruiz has just published in the Temas de Historia Antigua collection of Editorial Síntesis a manual, Introducción a la Religión Griega, which aims to bring to a broader public a fundamental reality in the Greece of the past and with important...
Two courses organized by Clasmed, on classical art and databases
As part of the Master’s Degree in the Teaching of Classical Languages for Secondary Education of the USC, Clasmed organized the course Myths and Images: A Pedagogical Blast. It was taught by Professor Fernando Domènech, senior teacher at IES María Casares, and held at...
3rd Workshop The Gods of Anatolia and Their Names
The 3rd Workshop The Gods of Anatolia and Their Names, the third scientific meeting of the coordinated projects in which the USC project The Gods of Anatolia and Their Names in the Hittite and Luvite sources of the second millennium (PID2021-124635NB-C33) is...