'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).
Author(s): Steven J. Reid, David McOmish
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 260
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 312
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations and Conventions viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction / Steven J. Reid 1
1. France through the Eyes of Scottish Neo-Latinists: Snapshots from the 'Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum' / Steven J. Reid 10
2. A Community of Scholarship: Latin Literature and Scientific Discourse in Early-Modern Scotland / David McOmish 40
3. The Scottish Fourth Eclogue / L. B. T. Houghton 74
4. Peter Goldman: A Dundee Poet and Physician in the Republic of Letters / William Poole 100
5. The King Returns: 'The Muses' Welcome' (1618) / Roger P. H. Green 126
6. Andrew Melville, the 'Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria', and the English Church / Robert Cummings 163
7. A Classic Send-Off: The Funeral Oration of George Keith, Fourth Earl Marischal (1623) / Miles Kerr-Peterson 182
8. Arthur Johnston (c. 1579–1641): A Scottish Neo-Latin Poet in Europe / Alexander Farquhar 203
9 .Arthur Johnston’s 'Dedication' to the 'Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum' / Gesine Manuwald 223
10. James Dundas on Seneca, Descartes and the Fall / Alexander Broadie 247
11. The Decline of Latin in the Scottish Universities / Ralph McLean 264
Index 285
