Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-33071-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 260, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to examine a wide variety of aspects of Scottish Latin culture, including: Scottish participation in Latinate humanist circles across Europe, particularly in France and England; scientific, philosophical and didactic Latin culture in Scotland prior to the Scientific Revolution; and the reception of classical literature in Scotland, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. It also features in-depth examinations and translated excerpts of several key works, including the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam, 1637) and The Muses' Welcome (Edinburgh, 1618).

Contributors are: Alexander Broadie, Robert Cummings, Alexander Farquhar, Roger Green, L.B.T. Houghton, Miles Kerr-Peterson, Ralph McLean, David McOmish, Gesine Manuwald, William Poole, and Steven J. Reid.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reid, Steven J

McOmish, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Steven J. Reid

Chapter One: France through the Eyes of Scottish Neo-Latinists: Snapshots from the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum
Steven J. Reid

Chapter Two: A Community of Scholarship: Latin Literature and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Scotland
David McOmish

Chapter Three: The Scottish Fourth Eclogue
L. B. T. Houghton

Chapter Four: Peter Goldman: A Dundee Poet and Physician in the Republic of Letters
William Poole

Chapter Five: The King Returns: The Muses’ Welcome (1618)
Roger P.H. Green

Chapter Six: Andrew Melville, the “Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria”, and the English Church
Robert Cummings†

Chapter Seven: A Classic Send-Off: the Funeral Oration of George Keith, Fourth Earl Marischal (1623)
Miles Kerr-Peterson

Chapter Eight: Arthur Johnston (c.1579-1641): A Scottish Neo-Latin Poet in Europe
Alexander Farquhar

Chapter Nine: Arthur Johnston’s “Dedication” to the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum
Gesine Manuwald

Chapter Ten: James Dundas on Seneca, Descartes and the Fall
Alexander Broadie

Chapter Eleven: The Decline of Latin in the Scottish Universities
Ralph McLean

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven J. Reid is Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded “Bridging the Continental Divide” project. He has published a range of articles and books on intellectual and religious culture in early modern Scotland.

David McOmish is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lead Translator on the AHRC-funded “Bridging the Continental Divide” project at the University of Glasgow. He has published several articles on classical reception and Latinate scientific culture in early modern Scotland.