Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature, An (Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies)

About the Author\nGesine 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.\nLuke Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School, UK, and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He has published widely on early-modern Latin literature and has co-edited Perceptions of Horace (Bloomsbury, 2009), Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbubry, 2012) and Virgil and Renaissance Culture (2018). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies\nLucy Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King's College London and University College 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 (SNLS).\nBobby Xinyue is Lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Language and Literature & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the King's College London, UK.\nStephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. His research interests are in Augustan Poetry, the Ancient Novel, esp. Apuleius, Classical Reception (especially 19th and 20th century UK). Among many books and articles he is author of: Vergil: Aeneid 10 (1991), Homage to Horace (ed., 1995), Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (2000) Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007).\nThis 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.