An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities

This anthology presents a comprehensive collection of Latin texts produced in British universities from c. 1500 to 1700, with an introduction to Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek production, accompanying English translations, and a bibliography. It includes passages from documents across the British Isles, covering a wide range of material and providing insights into the broader culture of the early modern university.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This comprehensive volume presents a collection of Latin texts produced in British universities from c. 1500 to 1700, providing a comprehensive introduction to Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, and an associated bibliography. The anthology includes 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by a short introduction, which set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. The sections are arranged in a way that ensures accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. The passages are taken from documents composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, including Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, and St Andrews, and adduce a wide range of material from orations and disputational theses to collections of occasional verse, correspondence, notebooks, and university drama. Together, the contributions offer insights into the broader culture of the early modern university over an extended period, engaging with the administrative operations of institutions, pedagogical processes and academic approaches, as well as high-level disputes and the universities relationship with the worlds of politics, new science, and intellectual developments elsewhere in Europe.

Weight: 398g
Dimension: 314 x 222 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350160255