Profiling cultural literacy of Croatian Latin writers

A paper to be presented in the Latin, National Identity and the Language Question in Central Europe conference, organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck (12--15 Dec 2012) will apply E. D. Hirsch's concept of cultural literacy --- which is actually German Allgemeinbildung or Bildungsgut (see it at work in these books), and "opća kultura" in Croatian --- to intellectual horizons of Croatian neo-Latin writers, as represented in the Croatiae auctores Latini collection.

Judging from the programme, the conference offers a chance to present digital research to an audience working mostly in "traditional" ways. This is quite an opportunity; too often digital humanities get separated in a room of their own, where they don't get in anybody's way. So, the challenge is to persuade colleagues that a large-scale search of CroALa using e. g. common terms from CAMENA TERMINI can lead to something interesting.

Update, post-conference, 19/12/2012:

My presentation on cultural literacy is here (note to self: never again try to do a presentation in a browser — outdated browser versions always turn up in crucial moments in crucial spots).

The paper itself is here.