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Gesine Manuwald et Lucy R. Nicholas (éd.), An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities, Londres, 2022.

Éditeur : Bloomsbury
Collection : Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies
320 pages
ISBN : 9781350160255
£ 90.00

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
List of contributors
Preface

Introduction
(Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL, UK)

Texts
1 Academic Freedom on Trial in Tudor Times
Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542 (Micha Lazarus, University of Cambridge, UK)

2 Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek
Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae (Aaron Kachuk, University of Cambridge, UK, and Benedick C.F. McDougall)

3 A Professor in Scottish Politics
Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Stephaniskion (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK)

4 A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge
Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546–1611), Ecloga Daphnis (Sharon van Dijk, University of Birmingham, UK)

5 Greek and Latin poetry from Cambridge on sixteenth-century questions of faith
Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and the 1590s (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria)

6 Happy New Year in Jacobean Oxford: Metamorphosing Ovid into Student Comedy
Philip Parsons (1594–1653), Atalanta (Elizabeth Sandis, Institute for English Studies, UK)

7 European Networks and the Reformation of the University of Edinburgh
Astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612–16. Lecturer: William King (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)

8 A Prevaricator Speech from Caroline Cambridge
James Duport (1606–1679), Aurum potest produci per artem chymicam (Tommi Alho, University, Finland)

9 An Irish Panegyric on Henry Cromwell Caesar Williamson (c. 1611–1675), Panegyris in Excellentissimum Dominum, Dominum Henricum Cromwellum (Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland)

10 Herrings, Linen and Cheese: Celebrating the Treaty of Westminster in 1654
The Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria (Oxford) and the Oliva Pacis (Cambridge) (Caroline Spearing, University of Exeter, UK)

11 Political Poetry from late Stuart Cambridge
Cambridge Poems on the Peace of 1697 (David Money, University of Cambridge, UK)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Source : Bloomsbury