{"product_id":"an-anthology-of-british-neolatin-literature-bloomsbury-neolatin-series-early-modern-texts-and-anthologies-9781350098893","title":"An Anthology of British NeoLatin Literature Bloomsbury NeoLatin Series Early Modern Texts and Anthologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGesine Manuwald\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and co-edited the collected volume \u003ci\u003eNeo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2012). \u003cb\u003eL. B. T. Houghton\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Classics at Rugby School and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVirgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), and is a former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. \u003cb\u003eLucy R. Nicholas\u003c\/b\u003e is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King's College London and the Warburg Institute, University of 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 \u003ci\u003eThemes of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePolemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn anthology of British Neo-Latin was long overdue. Now we have it. Comprehensive in its range, informative and perceptive in its presentation of the single texts, this book is a model of its kind. -- Martin Korenjak, Professor of Classics, University of Innsbruck (and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Austria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e  INTRODUCTION (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)    1          Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium    2          British Neo-Latin Literature    3          Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres    4          Aims and Coverage of this Volume    5          Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions    6          Further Reading   TEXTS           1        Utopia: Elsewhere and Nowhere Thomas More (1478–1535), Extracts from \u003ci\u003eUtopia \u003c\/i\u003e(Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)     2        An Early Tudor Antiquarian at Bath John Leland (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1503–1552), \u003ci\u003eDe thermis Britannicis\u003c\/i\u003e (Andrew W. Taylor,  University of Cambridge, UK)     3        The Nature of the Universe George Buchanan (1506–1582), \u003ci\u003eDe sphaera\u003c\/i\u003e 1.1–51 (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)     4        A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I’s Coronation in Verse Walter Haddon (1515–1572), \u003ci\u003eIn … Elisabethae \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eregimen\u003c\/i\u003e (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)     5        The Latin University Orations of Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Speeches of 1566 and 1592 (Sarah Knight, University of Leicester, UK)     6        Female Funerary Verse Elizabeth Hoby, Lady Russell (1540–1609), Epitaphic Poems (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK)     7        On Writing about Britain William Camden (1551–1623), Prefatory Letter to \u003ci\u003eBritannia\u003c\/i\u003e (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK)     8        A Birthday Poem for Christ Adam King (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1560–1620), \u003ci\u003eGenethliacon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIesu Christi\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1586) (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK)     9        On Poetry, Politics and Religion John Owen (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1560–1622), Selection of Epigrams (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK)     10      A Comic Exorcism George Ruggle (1575–1622),\u003ci\u003e Ignoramus\u003c\/i\u003e IV 11 (Daniel Hadas, KCL, UK)     11      ‘Dazel’d thus with height of place’: An English Lyric in Two Latin Versions    English: Henry Wotton (1568–1639); Latin: Anonymous [Georg Weckherlin (1584–1653)?] (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)    12      A Meeting in Mauritania John Barclay (1582–1621),\u003ci\u003e Argenis\u003c\/i\u003e, Book 5, Chapter 8 (9) (Jacqueline Glomski, UCL, UK)     13     The Gunpowder Plot John Milton (1608–1674),\u003ci\u003e In Quintum Novembris\u003c\/i\u003e (Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK)     14      A Frost Fair on the Thames William Baker, \u003ci\u003eDescriptio Brumae\u003c\/i\u003e (1634\/5) (George Pounder, Glenalmond College, Scotland)     15      The Beauty and Horror of the Mountains Thomas Burnet (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1635–1715),\u003ci\u003e Telluris \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003etheoria sacra \u003c\/i\u003e1.1.9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria)     16      A Satire on the Bishop of Salisbury Anonymous (Thomas Brown?), \u003ci\u003eIn Episcopum \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuendam\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1689) (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)     17     A View of the Scottish Highlands James Philp (1656\/7–\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1713),\u003ci\u003e Grameid\u003c\/i\u003e 3.10–36 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)    18      Thomas Gray Prophesies Space Travel Thomas Gray (1716–1771),\u003ci\u003e Luna habitabilis \u003c\/i\u003e51–72, 78–95 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)  \u003ci\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187286171991,"sku":"9781350098893","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-anthology-of-british-neolatin-literature-bloomsbury-neolatin-series-early-modern-texts-and-anthologies-9781350098893","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}