An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature

Description

Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides readers with the context they need before diving into the 19 high-quality short Latin extracts and English translations. Together these texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes that flourished at the time, and include authors such as Erasmus, Buchanan, Leibniz and Newton, along with less well-known writers. From the vast array of material available, a varied and meaningful sample of texts has been carefully curated by the editors of the volume. Passages not only exhibit literary merit or historical importance, but also illustrate the role of the complete texts from which they have been selected in the development of Neo-Latin literature. They reflect the wide range of authors writing in Latin in early modern Europe, as well as the importance of Latin in the history of ideas. As with all volumes in the series, section introductions and accompanying notes on every text provide orientation on the material for students.

Daniel Hadas is Lecturer in Medieval Latin at King's College London, UK. His research interests centre around Latin patristics, the development of post-classical Latin, and manuscript culture and textual criticism. Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and co-edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbury, 2012). Lucy R. Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King's College London and the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. She has published on Roger Ascham and written on other early modern Latin authors, including Thomas More and Walter Haddon, and also co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016) with Andrea Riedl Svorad Zavarsky. She is the Treasurer of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies.

This anthology provides an excellent introduction to a wide-range of Latin writing from the pivotal centuries after the introduction of the printing press. You'll find in it a treasure trove of excerpts from famous and fascinating authors sure to delight anyone interested in European learning and letters. -- Aaron Pelttari, Lecturer in Classics, University of Edinburgh, UK