Neo-Latin literature and literary culture in early modern Scotland / edited by Steven J. Reid and David McOmish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Steven J., editor.

McOmish, David, editor.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 260.

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; volume 260

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--Scotland--History and criticism.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern.

Latin language--Study and teaching--Scotland.

Latin language.

Latin language--Study and teaching.

Scotland.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 300 pages ; ǂc 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland' is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to examine a wide variety of aspects of Scottish Latin culture, including: Scottish participation in Latinate humanist circles across Europe, particularly in France and England; scientific, philosophical and didactic Latin culture in Scotland prior to the Scientific Revolution; and the reception of classical literature in Scotland, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. It also features in-depth examinations and translated excerpts of several key works, including the 'Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum' (Amsterdam, 1637) and 'The Muses Welcome' (Edinburgh, 1617).

Contents:

Introduction / Steven J. Reid

France through the eyes of Scottish neo-Latinists: snapshots from the Delitiae poetarum scotorum / Steven J. Reid

A community of scholarship: Latin literature and scientific discourse in early modern Scotland / David McOmish

The Scottish Fourth eclogue / L.B.T. Houghton

Peter Goldman: a Dundee poet and physician in the republic of letters / William Poole

The king returns: the muses' welcome (1618) / Roger P.H. Green

Andrew Melville, the "anti-tami-cami-categoria" and the English church / Robert Cummings

A classic send-off: the funeral oration of George Keith fourth earl Marischal (1623) / Miles Kerr-Peterson

Arthur Johnston (c.1579-1641): a Scottish neo-Latin poet in Europe / Alexander Farquhar

Arthur Johnston's "dedication" to the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum / Gesine Manuwald

James Dundas on Seneca, Descartes and the fall / Alexander Broadie

The decline of Latin in the Scottish universities / Ralph McLean.

ISBN:

9789004330719

9004330712

OCLC:

953708976