An anthology of British neo-Latin literature / edited by L. B. T. Houghton, Gesine Manuwald and Lucy R. Nicholas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houghton, L. B. T, editor.

Manuwald, Gesine, editor.

Nicholas, Lucy R., editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early-Modern Texts and Anthologies.

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2020

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--Great Britain--Anthology.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and bibliography to the Latin literature of these centuries, as well as Latin texts with English translations, introductions and notes. These texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes flourishing at the time, illustrating the role of Latin texts in the development of literary genres, the diversity of authors writing in Latin in early modern Britain, and the importance of Latin in contemporary political, religious and scientific debates. The collection, which includes both texts by well-known authors (such as John Milton, Thomas More and George Buchanan) and previously unpublished items, can be used as a point of entry for students at school and university level, but will also be of interest to specialists in a number of academic disciplines."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors Preface

INTRODUCTION (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)

Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium

British Neo-Latin Literature

Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres

Aims and Coverage of this Volume

Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions

Further Reading TEXTS

Utopia: Elsewhere and Nowhere Thomas More (1478-1535), Extracts from Utopia (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)

An Early Tudor Antiquarian at Bath John Leland ( c. 1503-1552), De thermis Britannicis (Andrew W. Taylor,

University of Cambridge, UK)

The Nature of the Universe George Buchanan (1506-1582), De sphaera 1.1:51 (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)

A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I's Coronation in Verse Walter Haddon (1515-1572), In ... Elisabethae regimen (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)

The Latin University Orations of Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Speeches of 1566 and 1592 (Sarah Knight, University of Leicester, UK)

Female Funerary Verse Elizabeth Hoby, Lady Russell (1540?-1609), Epitaphic Poems (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)

On Writing about Britain William Camden (1551-1623), Prefatory Letter to Britannia (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK)

A Birthday Poem for Christ Adam King ( c. 1560-1620), Genethliacon Iesu Christi ( c. 1586) (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)

On Poetry, Politics and Religion John Owen ( c. 1560-1622), Selection of Epigrams (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK)

A Comic Exorcism George Ruggle (1575-1622), Ignoramus IV 11 (Daniel Hadas, KCL, UK)

'Dazel'd thus with height of place': An English Lyric in Two Latin Versions

English: Henry Wotton (1568-1639); Latin: Anonymous [Georg Weckherlin (1584-1653)?] (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)

A Meeting in Mauritania John Barclay (1582-1621), Argenis , Book 5, Chapter 8 (9) (Jacqueline Glomski, UCL, UK)

The Gunpowder Plot John Milton (1608-1674), In Quintum Novembris (Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK).

A Frost Fair on the Thames William Baker, Descriptio Brumae (1634/5) (George Pounder, Glenalmond College, Scotland)

The Beauty and Horror of the Mountains Thomas Burnet ( c. 1635-1715), Telluris theoria sacra 1.1.9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria)

A Satire on the Bishop of Salisbury Anonymous (Thomas Brown?), In Episcopum Quendam ( c. 1689) (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)

A View of the Scottish Highlands James Philp (1656/7? c. 1713), Grameid 3.10:36 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)

Thomas Gray Prophesies Space Travel Thomas Gray (1716-1771), Luna habitabilis 51:72, 78:95 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350098930

OCLC:

1181835548

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.