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Title Neo-Latin literature and literary culture in early modern Scotland / edited by Steven J. Reid and David McOmish.
Publisher Leiden : Brill, [2017]
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Description xi, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9789004330719 hardback : alkaline paper
Contents Introduction / Steven J. Reid -- France through the eyes of Scottish neo-Latinists: snapshots from the Delitiae poetarum scotorum / Steven J. Reid -- A community of scholarship: Latin literature and scientific discourse in early modern Scotland / David McOmish -- The Scottish Fourth eclogue / L.B.T. Houghton -- Peter Goldman: a Dundee poet and physician in the republic of letters / William Poole -- The king returns: the muses' welcome (1618) / Roger P.H. Green -- Andrew Melville, the "anti-tami-cami-categoria" and the English church / Robert Cummings -- A classic send-off: the funeral oration of George Keith fourth earl Marischal (1623) / Miles Kerr-Peterson -- Arthur Johnston (c.1579-1641): a Scottish neo-Latin poet in Europe / Alexander Farquhar -- Arthur Johnston's "dedication" to the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum / Gesine Manuwald -- James Dundas on Seneca, Descartes and the fall / Alexander Broadie -- The decline of Latin in the Scottish universities / Ralph McLean.
Summary "Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland is the first detailed examination of the vibrant corpus 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 during 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, 1617)"--Page 4 of cover.
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 260.
Library Class Classics Z245.B7
Subject Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Scotland -- History and criticism.
Latin language -- Study and teaching -- Scotland.
Other Author Reid, Steven J., editor.
McOmish, David, editor.

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