An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Xinyue, Bobby

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350160255)

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An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Xinyue, Bobby

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities

$40.95
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Xinyue, Bobby

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Bobby Xinyue
ISBN-10: 1350160253
ISBN-13: 9781350160255
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
By Bobby Xinyue
By Bobby Xinyue
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Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (2012) with Luke Houghton. She is a co-editor of the first two anthologies in the series.

Lucy Nicholas is Lecturer in Latin and Ancient Greek at The Warburg Institute in London, UK. She has published on Roger Ascham and written on other early modern Latin authors, including Thomas More, Thomas Nashe and Walter Haddon. She is also a co-editor of the first two anthologies in the series.

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