The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

Edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg

Oxford Handbooks

Thirty-five engaging and accessible accounts from prominent Neo-Latin specialists
Provides readers with a reliable survey of a young and burgeoning discipline

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

Edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg

Description

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This Handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, contexts, and regions of Neo-Latin, as we have come to call Latin writing composed in the wake of Petrarch (1304-74). Its emphasis is on the period of Neo-Latin's greatest cultural relevance, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Its chapters, written by specialists in the field, present individual methodologies and focuses while retaining an introductory character. The Handbook will be valuable to all readers wanting to orientate themselves in the immense ocean of Neo-Latin literature and culture. It will be particularly helpful for those working on early modern languages and literatures as well as to classicists working on the culture of ancient Rome, its early modern reception and the shifting characteristics of post-classical Latin language and literature. Political, social, cultural and intellectual historians will find much relevant material in the Handbook, and it will provide a rich range of material to scholars researching the history of their respective geographical areas of interest.

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

Edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg

Oxford Handbooks

Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction, Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg
Part I. Language and Genre
1 Classical Latin-Mediaeval Latin-Neo-Latin, Keith Sidwell
2 Neo-Latin's Interplay with Other Languages, Demmy Verbeke
3 Lyric Poetry, Victoria Moul
4 Narrative Poetry, Florian Schaffenrath
5 Epigram and Occasional Poetry, David Money
6 Comedy, Stefan Tilg
7 Tragedy, Gary Grund
8 Oratory, Marc Van Der Poel
9 Political Advice, Erik de Bom
10 Historiography, Patrick Baker
11 Letters, Jan Papy
12 Fiction, Mark T. Riley
13 Satire, Ingrid De Smet
Part II. Cultural Contexts
14 School, Robert Black
15 University, Sarah Knight
16 Philosophy, Guido Giglioni
17 Science and Medicine, Brian Ogilvie
18 Contacts with the Arab World, Dag Nikolaus Hasse
19 Biblical Humanism, Andrew Taylor
20 Catholicism, Jason Harris
21 Protestantism, Irena Backus
22 Political Action, Marc Laureys
23 Gender, Diana Robin
24 Social Status, Françoise Waquet
Part III. Countries and Regions
25 Italy, David Marsh
26 France, Paul White
27 British Isles, Estelle Haan
28 German-Speaking Countries, Robert Seidel
29 Iberian Peninsula, Alejandro Coroleu and Catarina Fouto
30 Low Countries, Dirk Sacré
31 Scandinavia, Peter Zeeberg and Annika Ström
32 East-Central Europe, Cristina Neagu
33 Colonial Spanish America and Brazil, Andrew Laird
34 North America, Jean-François Cottier, Haijo Westra, and John Gallucci
35 Asia, Noël Golvers
General References, Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

Edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Edited by Sarah Knight, Professor of Renaissance Literature, School of English, University of Leicester, and Edited by Stefan Tilg, Professor of Latin, Seminar für Klassische Philologie, University of Freiburg

Stefan Tilg is Professor of Latin at the University of Freiburg. Before that, he was the first director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. His main publications are from the fields of Latin Jesuit drama and ancient fiction.

Sarah Knight is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester. Her main research and teaching interests are in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English and Latin literature. She has edited and translated several early modern Latin works, including Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, the accounts of Elizabeth I's visits to the University of Oxford, and John Milton's Prolusions.

Contributors:

Irena Backus
Patrick Baker
Robert Black
Alejandro Coroleu
Jean-François Cottier
Erik de Bom
Ingrid De Smet
Catarina Fouto
Guido Giglioni
Noël Golvers
Gary Grund
Estelle Haan
Jason Harris
Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Sarah Knight
Andrew Laird
Marc Laureys
David Marsh
David Money
Victoria Moul
Cristina Neagu
Brian Ogilvie
Jan Papy
Mark T. Riley
Diana Robin
Dirk Sacré
Florian Schaffenrath
Robert Seidel
Keith Sidwell
Annika Ström
Andrew Taylor
Stefan Tilg
Marc Van Der Poel
Demmy Verbeke
Françoise Waquet
Haijo Westra
Paul White
Peter Zeeberg

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

Edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg

Oxford Handbooks

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