An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature

L. B. T. Houghton, Gesine Manuwald and Lucy R. Nicholas

This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and bibliography to the Latin literature of these centuries, as well as Latin texts with English translations, introductions and notes. These texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes flourishing at the time, illustrating the role of Latin texts in the development of literary genres, the diversity of authors writing in Latin in early modern Britain, and the importance of Latin in contemporary political, religious and scientific debates. The collection, which includes both texts by well-known authors (such as John Milton, Thomas More and George Buchanan) and previously unpublished items, can be used as a point of entry for students at school and university level, but will also be of interest to specialists in a number of academic disciplines.

New translations of each text by expert contributors

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPrefaceINTRODUCTION(L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)1 Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium2 British Neo-Latin Literature3 Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres4 Aims and Coverage of this Volume5 Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions6 Further ReadingTEXTS1 Utopia: Elsewhere and NowhereThomas More (1478-1535), Extracts from Utopia (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)2 An Early Tudor Antiquarian at BathJohn Leland (c. 1503-1552), De thermis Britannicis (Andrew W. Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK)3 The Nature of the UniverseGeorge Buchanan (1506-1582), De sphaera 1.1-51 (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)4 A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I's Coronation in VerseWalter Haddon (1515-1572), In . Elisabethae regimen (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)5 The Latin University Orations of Queen Elizabeth IQueen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Speeches of 1566 and 1592 (Sarah Knight, University of Leicester, UK)6 Female Funerary VerseElizabeth Hoby, Lady Russell (1540-1609), Epitaphic Poems (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)7 On Writing about BritainWilliam Camden (1551-1623), Prefatory Letter to Britannia (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK)8 A Birthday Poem for ChristAdam King (c. 1560-1620), Genethliacon Iesu Christi (c. 1586) (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)9 On Poetry, Politics and ReligionJohn Owen (c. 1560-1622), Selection of Epigrams (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK)10 A Comic ExorcismGeorge Ruggle (1575-1622), Ignoramus IV 11 (Daniel Hadas, KCL, UK)11 'Dazel'd thus with height of place': An English Lyric in Two Latin VersionsEnglish: Henry Wotton (1568-1639); Latin: Anonymous [Georg Weckherlin (1584-1653)?] (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)12 A Meeting in MauritaniaJohn Barclay (1582-1621), Argenis, Book 5, Chapter 8 (9) (Jacqueline Glomski, UCL, UK)13 The Gunpowder PlotJohn Milton (1608-1674), In Quintum Novembris (Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK)14 A Frost Fair on the ThamesWilliam Baker, Descriptio Brumae (1634/5) (George Pounder, Glenalmond College, Scotland)15 The Beauty and Horror of the MountainsThomas 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 SalisburyAnonymous (Thomas Brown?), In Episcopum Quendam (c. 1689) (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)17 A View of the Scottish HighlandsJames Philp (1656/7-c. 1713), Grameid 3.10-36 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)18 Thomas Gray Prophesies Space TravelThomas Gray (1716-1771), Luna habitabilis 51-72, 78-95 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)Index