This is a list of publications on the history of philology published by team members, mostly as a direct result of their work within the Metaphilology Research Group. For full individual bibliographies, see the team member profiles.
Volumes
Loporcaro & Kurtz, eds (f/c): Philology in Europe before and after 1800: Change and Continuity. Studies in the History of Knowledge. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, under contract.
Articles
Palladino (f/c): ‘Types of Knowledge: August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Devanagari Font‘, History of Humanities, accepted.
Kurtz (2025): ‘Jewish Catholicism? Ancient Judaism, (Anti-)Catholic Polemics, and Historical Scholarship in Southern Germany, 1820–1870’, English Language Notes 63, no. 2, Special Issue: Where the Past Lies, ed. Samuel Boyd, 95–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-11907563
Palladino (2025): ‘Textual Multi-Religiosity: The Usage of Indian Religious Lexica and Symbols in Parsi Sanskrit’, South Asian Studies: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2025.2572111
Palladino (2025): ‘From Nēryōsangh to Burnouf: The Philological System of the Sanskrit Yasna’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, First View: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186325100904
Palladino (2025): ‘Segni particolari: zoroastriano. Storia dell’affermazione zoroastriana nel Nord India intorno al primo millennio d.C.’, Quaderni di Meykhane XV/1: 1–13. http://meykhane.altervista.org/6._Palladino_QMEY_15-1.pdf.
Xie (2025): ‘Three Centuries of Chinese Printing in the Netherlands’, Jaarboek Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis 32, 130–47. https://doi.org/10.5117/JNB2025.007.XIE
Loporcaro (2024): ‘Admiring the Greeks with Roman Eyes: F. A. Wolf, Quintilian, and the Latin Roots of German Philhellenism’, Classical Receptions Journal 17/1, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clae015
Xie (2024): ‘Colonialism, Academic, Typography : Unveiling 19th-Century Chinese Printing in the Netherlands (1830-1860),’ Quaerendo 54/4: 331–61. https://doi:10.1163/15700690-bja10015
Xie (2024): ‘From Hong Kong to Leiden: Chinese Type Matrices in the Wereldmuseum Leiden,’ Provenance 5 (Wereldmuseum Amsterdam): 21–35. ISBN 978-94-6426-314-5
Kurtz (2021): ‘The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century’, Critical Inquiry 47/4: 747–76. https://doi.org/10.1086/714541
Book chapters
Kurtz (2023): ‘Rationalism and Biblical Interpretation: H.E.G. Paulus, K.G. Bretschneider, and W.M.L. de Wette’, in Oxford History of Modern Germany Theology, vol. 1, 1781–1848, ed. Grant Kaplan and Kevin Vander Schel (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 439–61. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845768.003.0023
Kurtz (2022): ‘A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism’, in The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation, ed. Ian Boxall and Bradley C. Gregory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 15–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.003
Reviews
Palladino (2025): Review of An Introduction to Young Avestan: A Manual for Teaching and Learning, by Alberto Cantera / Céline Redard, Indo-Iranian Journal 68/2: 164–168.
Kurtz (2023): Review of The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism, by Jakob Norberg (Cambridge University Press), German Quarterly 96/4: 592–95. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12389