Table of 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)
1 Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium
2 British Neo-Latin Literature
3 Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres
4 Aims and Coverage of this Volume
5 Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions
6 Further Reading

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

2 An Early Tudor Antiquarian at Bath
John Leland (c. 1503–1552), De thermis Britannicis (Andrew W. Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11 ‘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)

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

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

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

15 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)

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

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

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

Index

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A rich and varied collection of extracts from texts written in Latin in early modern Britain, featuring prose and verse passages covering a wide range of literary genres and themes.

About the Author

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).

L. B. T. Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He is the author of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance (2019), and is a former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies.

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. She co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016). She is the Treasurer of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies.

Reviews

An anthology of British Neo-Latin was long overdue. Now we have it. Comprehensive in its range, informative and perceptive in its presentation of the single texts, this book is a model of its kind.
*Martin Korenjak, Professor of Classics, University of Innsbruck (and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Austria*