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MA in Latin and Greek (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988)
Awarded the University of Copenhagen's Gold Medal for MA dissertation on Latin Wedding Poems in Sixteenth-Century Denmark (1988)
Ph.D. in Classical Philology and the History of Rhetoric (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1993)
Research Fellow/Associate Research Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen, 1993-1996/1997-2001
Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Örebro, Sweden, 2004
Affiliated to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2006-2008
Founder (in 1999) and president of the *Nordic Network for the History of Rhetoric*.
Editor of the Network's book series Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric.
Founder (in 2003), general editor, and publisher of Rhetorical Review, The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric.
Member of the board of The International Society for the History of Rhetoric 1999-2005 (member of the ISHR Council 1999-2003; officer in the ISHR Nominating Committee 2003-2005).
Member of the Editorial Board of ISHR's journal Rhetorica.Founder (in 2008) of the Nordic Epideictic Research Group. From August 2009 the Research Group forms the basis of 'Nätverket för tillfällesdiktning 1500-1800' (The Nordic Network for Epideictic Literature 1500-1800), a Nordic research project directed by Stefan Ekman, Pernille Harsting, and Tua Korhonen, and funded by a grant from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Email address: pernille.harsting@nnrh.dk
Main fields of research: Rhetoric and The Classical Tradition
In particular (1) The history of rhetoric and (2) Neo-Latin Literature.
(The letter 'E' in the following lists indicates that the publication in question contains text edition.)
(1) The History of Rhetoric
I am especially interested in the tradition and (textual) transmission of epideictic rhetoric from Antiquity to the Renaissance; in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria; and in the history of rhetoric in the five Nordic countries, 1500-1900.
Works in progress:
(A) Menander Rhetor in the Renaissance, a book on the reception of Menander of Laodicea's third/fourth-century Peri epideiktikon in Italy (and in Northern Europe), based on studies of the manuscript transmission and the translations of the Greek epideictic prescriptions in the period 1400-1650.
(B) Contribution to Catalogus translationum et commentariorum on the manuscript transmission from Byzantium to the Latin West and the reception in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of Menander of Laodicea's third/fourth-century Peri epideiktikon.
Publications (in English) on the history of rhetoric:
* Review of Alessandro Daneloni: Poliziano e il testo dell'Institutio oratoria (Messina 2001), in Rhetorical Review: The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric, 7:3 (October 2009), pp. 1-5.
* Rhetoric and Literature in Finland and Sweden, 1600-1900, Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 2, ed. by Pernille Harsting and Jon Viklund (Copenhagen: Nordisk Netværk for Retorikkens Historie (NNRH), 2008), ISBN: 987-87-988829-1-6, 241 pages.
* "Introduction" to Pernille Harsting & Jon Viklund (eds.), Rhetoric and Literature in Finland and Sweden, 1600-1900, Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 2 (Copenhagen: Nordisk Netværk for Retorikkens Historie (NNRH), 2008), pp. 1-8.
* Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 1, ed. by Pernille Harsting and Stefan Ekman (Copenhagen: Nordisk Netværk for Retorikkens Historie (NNRH), 2002), ISBN: 87-988829-0-2, 175 pages.* "The Discovery of Late-Classical Epideictic Theory in the Italian Renaissance", in Pernille Harsting & Stefan Ekman (eds.), Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric [= Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric vol. 1] (Copenhagen: NNRH, 2002), pp. 39-53.
* "More Evidence of Menander Rhetor on the Epithalamium: Angelo Poliziano's Transcription in the Statius Commentary (1480-81), Re-edited with a Discussion of the Manuscript Sources and Earlier Editions", Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin 72 (Copenhagen 2001), pp. 11-34. (E)
* "More Evidence of the Earliest Translation of Menander Rhetor on the Monody", CIMAGL 70 (Copenhagen 1999), pp. 3-12. (E)
* "Quintilian, Imitation, and 'Anxiety of Influence'", in Quintiliano: Historia y Actualidad de la Retórica, ed. by Tomás Albaladejo (Logroño 1998), pp. 1325-1336.
* "Two Renaissance Translations of Menander Rhetor on the Monody. Edited with a Note on the Introduction of the Genre in the Latin West", CIMAGL 67 (Copenhagen 1997), pp. 13-32. (E)
* "The Golden Method of Menander Rhetor. The Translations and the Reception of the peri epideiktikon in the Italian Renaissance", ARID 20 (Rome: Bretschneider, 1994), pp. 139-157. (E)
* "The Work of Menander Rhetor in Italy in the Renaissance: The First Translation?", Res publica litterarum 14 (Kansas 1991) and Studi Umanistici Piceni 11 (Sassoferrato 1991), pp. 69-73. (E)
(2) Neo-Latin Literature
The Neo-Latin part of my research focuses on epideictic poetry in general, and on Danish and North-German poets and poems in particular.
Works in progress:
(A) Latin Wedding Poems from Sixteenth-Century Denmark (a text-critical edition of all the period's Latin epithalamia that have survived in manuscripts and/or in printed versions).
(B) Wedding Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Denmark (a book survey of the preserved Latin, Greek, and Danish epithalamia, with presentation of the manuscript and printed material, the rhetorico-poetical genre history, the authors, and the addressees).
Publications (in English and one in Italian) on Neo-Latin literature:
* "What's in A Title Page? Title-Page Topics of Neo-Latin Epithalamia Printed in Sixteenth-Century Denmark", in Stefan Ekman et al. (eds.), Den litterära textens förändringar. Studier tillägnade Stina Hansson (Stockholm/Stehag: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2007), pp. 230-240.
* "Jacobus Jacobaeus Volfius: Carmen in nuptias Jacobi VI Regis Scotiae et Annae (1589), Edited with a Study of the Autograph Sources", Humanistica Lovaniensia 50 (Leuven 2001), pp. 329-349. (E)
* "Four Autograph Poems by Jacobus Jasparus Danus (fl. 1529-1549) Discovered in the Vatican Library*, Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 27 (Rome 2001), pp. 151-160. (E)
* "From Melanchthonism to Mannerism: The Development of the Neo-Latin Wedding Poem in 16th Century Denmark", in Chloe. Beihefte zum Daphnis 32 = Humanismus im Norden. Frühneuzeitliche Rezeption antiker Kultur und Literatur an Nord-und Ostsee, ed. by Thomas Haye (Amsterdam 2000), pp. 289-318. (E)
* "'Should One Marry?' On the Use of a Classical Rhetorical Theme in Early Lutheran Wedding Poetry", Classica et Mediaevalia 50 (Aarhus 1999), pp. 273-286. (E)
* "Latin Valedictory Poems of the 16th Century. Tradition and Topicality of a Classical Genre", in Minna Skafte Jensen (ed.), A History of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature (Odense 1995), pp. 203-218. (E)
* "Jacobus Jasparus (fl. 1529-1549): 'Homerulus noster Danicus'", in Jean Moss et al. (eds.) Acta Conventus Neolatini Hafniensis (Binghamton, NY 1994), pp. 465-476. (E)
* "Epitalami latini della riforma in Danimarca (1536-1590): Imitazione classica e rappresentazione luterana", Res publica litterarum 15 (Kansas 1992) and Studi Umanistici Piceni 12 (Sassoferrato 1992), pp. 97-106. (E)
The Perotti project:The project of re-editing the Italian humanist Niccolò Perotti's encyclopedic commentary on Martial, the Cornucopiae (mid-fifteenth century), was conceived by the late prof. Sesto Prete (University of Kansas). I edited volume 5 of this "commentary on the Latin language" in collaboration with prof. Jean-Louis Charlet (University of Provence).
* Nicolai Perotti, Cornu copiae seu linguae Latinae commentariae 5, eds. J.-L. Charlet and P. Harsting (Sassoferrato 1995), 257 pages. (E)
For my publications in Danish, go to: <http://www.nnrh.dk/NNRH/medlem.html>.
Last update: March 9, 2010 (pernille.harsting@nnrh.dk)