An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities

Gesine Manuwald, Lucy R. Nicholas, Gesine Manuwald, Lucy R. Nicholas

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781350160255
• eBook ISBN: 9781350160279
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c. 1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, plus an associated bibliography. 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by its own short introduction, set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. Each section provides focused orientation and is arranged in such a way as to ensure the volume's accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. Passages are taken from documents that were composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, in 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. This anthology as a whole conveys a sense of the extent of Latin's role in the academy and the span of remits in which it was deployed. Far from simply offering a snapshot of discrete projects, the contributions collectively offer insights into the broader culture of the early modern university over an extended period. They engage with the administrative operations of institutions, pedagogical processes and academic approaches, but also high-level disputes and the universities' relationship with the worlds of politics, new science and intellectual developments elsewhere in Europe.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Academic Freedom on Trial in Tudor Times Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542
• 2 Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae
• 3 A Professor in Scottish Politics Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Stephaniskion
• 4 A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546–1611), Ecloga Daphnis
• 5 Greek and Latin Poetry from Cambridge on Sixteenth-century Questions of Faith Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and 1590s
• 6 Happy New Year in Jacobean Oxford: Metamorphosing Ovid into Student Comedy Philip Parsons (1594–1653), Atalanta
• 7 European Networks and the Reformation of the University of Edinburgh Astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612–16. Lecturer: William King
• 8 A Prevaricator Speech from Caroline Cambridge James Duport (1606–79), A urum potest produci per artem chymicam
• 9 An Irish Panegyric on Henry Cromwell Caesar Williamson (c. 1611–75), Panegyris in Excellentissimum Dominum, Dominum Henricum Cromwellum, Deputatum Hiberniae, Cancellariumque Academiae Dubliniensis
• 10 Herrings, Linen and Cheese: Celebrating the Treaty of Westminster in 1654 The Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria (Oxford) and the Oliva Pacis (Cambridge)
• 11 Political Poetry from Late Stuart Cambridge Cambridge Poems on the peace of 1697
• Index of Names and Places