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Tjoelker, Nienke, “John Lynch’s Alithinologia (1664): Ciceronian disputation and cultural translation in the early modern period”, in: Astrid Steiner-Weber [gen. ed.] (ed.), Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis: proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Uppsala 2009), Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012. 1119–1129.

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“John Lynch’s Alithinologia (1664): Ciceronian disputation and cultural translation in the early modern period”
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2012
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An analysis of the Latin of the Alithinologia can help to contextualise Irish Latin works among contemporary writings from the continent and develop a detailed analysis of the impact of humanist Latin upon the origins of national identity in Ireland in the early modern period. It gives a short analysis of Lynch's Latinity in the Alithinologia, under the headings of orthography, morphology, syntax, vocabulary and style. That Latin style is still an important point of discussion in Lynch's time and can be illustrated by its own frequent criticism of barbarisms in O'Ferrall's work in the Alithinologiae Supplementum. Two aspects stand out in Lynch's style in the Alithinologia. Firstly, Lynch intends to write in a highly rhetorical style, in a moderate Ciceronian, or eclectic Latin style, in order to achieve a 'true account'. The classical and ecclesiastical education that Lynch received show the learning of the renaissance, as modified by the counter-reformation.
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John LynchLynch (John)
(c. 1599–1677)
Lucius (Gratianus)
Irish priest and scholar; author of Cambrensis eversus (1662), under the Latin pseudonym Gratianus Lucius.
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