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Informationen zum Autor Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (2012) with Luke Houghton. Lucy Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King’s College London and University College 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 Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016). She is the Treasurer of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). Klappentext Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume showcases an array of Latin texts produced in the context of British universities from c.1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction and bibliography to the Neo-Latin literature produced at universities during these centuries, as well as 12 high-quality Latin extracts with accompanying English translations and notes. Passages are taken from documents composed in Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews, and include a wide range of material from orations and commentaries to collections of occasional verse, correspondence, notebooks and university drama. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Tr...
