The National Library of Luxembourg published its first scientific work in Open Access (OA): Lectori vago Manuscripts, Libraries, and Classical Scholarship from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period Liber amicorum Luc Deitz, edited by Claude D. Conter, Thomas Falmagne, Marc Laureys ,Christophe Marinheiro, Max Schmitz and Tom Zago (Turnhout: Brepols 2026) with 23 research articles concerning Humanistic Latin literature; Literature: history & criticism; Paleography, Scripts & Manuscript Studies.
The book has been published in Gold OA and is now freely accessible online.
This volume pays tribute to the exceptional career of Luc Deitz, shaped by intellectual depth and an insatiable curiosity. Inspired by Scaliger’s maxim “Utinam essem bonus grammaticus …”, Luc Deitz devoted his life to exploring the texts, ideas, and traditions that have shaped our culture. The contributions assembled here reflect the remarkable breadth of his interests. The section on Classical Scholarship from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period examines his work on Scaliger and Neo-Latin literature. The chapter Manuscripts and Libraries highlights his dedication to preserving and promoting Luxembourg’s manuscript heritage, while the section on Luxemburgensia explores the intellectual history of a region that has always been close to his heart.
Luc Deitz has served as Director of the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department at the National Library of Luxembourg since 1998. From 2009 onward, he has also been an Außerplanmäßiger Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Latin at the University of Trier. Prior to these appointments, he held academic positions at the universities of Constance, Luxembourg, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Trier, following major research fellowships at the Warburg Institute. His scholarship focuses on Renaissance Platonism, Neo-Latin philology, poetics and rhetoric, early modern intellectual history, and the study of Latin manuscripts.
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