An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities (Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies)

321 Pages·2022·6.316 MB·English

by  Lucy R. Nicholas (editor)

An Anthology of
Neo-Latin Literature
in British Universities
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BLOOMSBURY NEO-LATIN SERIES
Series editors: William M. Barton, Stephen Harrison, Gesine Manuwald and
Bobby Xinyue
Early Modern Texts and Anthologies
Edited by Stephen Harrison and Gesine Manuwald
Volume 3
Th e ‘Early Modern Texts and Anthologies’ strand of the Bloomsbury Neo-
Latin Series presents editions of texts with English translations, introductions
and notes. Volumes include complete editions of longer single texts and
themed anthologies bringing together texts from particular genres, periods
or countries and the like.

Th ese editions are primarily aimed at students and scholars and intended to
be suitable for use in university teaching, with introductions that give
authoritative but not exhaustive accounts of the relevant texts and authors,
and commentaries that provide suffi cient help for the modern reader in
noting links with classical Latin texts and bringing out the cultural context of
writing.
Alongside the series’ ‘Studies in Early Modern Latin Literature’ strand, it is
hoped that these editions will help to bring important and interesting Neo-
Latin texts of the period from 1350 to 1800 to greater prominence in study
and scholarship, and make them available for a wider range of academic
disciplines as well as for the rapidly growing study of Neo-Latin itself.
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An Anthology of
Neo-Latin Literature
in British Universities
Edited by Gesine Manuwald and
Lucy R. Nicholas
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List of Contributors vii
Preface xi
I ntroduction
Lucy R. Nicholas 1
T exts
1 A cademic F reedom on T rial in T udor T imes
Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542
Micha Lazarus 31
2 W hy T udor C ambridge N eeds G reek
Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae
Aaron J. Kachuck and Benedick C. F. McDougall 59
3 A P rofessor in S cottish P olitics
Andrew Melville (1545–1622), S tephaniskion
Stephen J. Harrison 89
4 A D istinct M ode of P astoral in E lizabethan C ambridge
Giles Fletcher the Elder (c . 1546–1611), E cloga Daphnis
Sharon van Dijk 119
5 G reek and L atin P oetry from C ambridge on
S ixteenth-century Q uestions of F aith
Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and 1590s
William M. Barton 137
6 H appy N ew Y ear in J acobean O xford: M etamorphosing O vid into
S tudent C omedy
Philip Parsons (1594–1653), Atalanta
Elizabeth Sandis 155
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7 E uropean N etworks and the R eformation of the U niversity of
E dinburgh
Astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612–16.
Lecturer: William King
David McOmish 177
8 A P revaricator S peech from C aroline C ambridge
James Duport (1606–79), A urum potest produci per
artem chymicam
Tommi Alho 203
9 A n I rish P anegyric on H enry C romwell
Caesar Williamson ( c. 1611–75), P anegyris in Excellentissimum
Dominum, Dominum Henricum Cromwellum, Deputatum
Hiberniae, Cancellariumque Academiae Dubliniensis
Jason Harris 219
10 H errings , L inen and C heese: C elebrating the
T reaty of W estminster in 1654
Th e Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria (Oxford) and the
Oliva Pacis (Cambridge)
Caroline Spearing 243
11 P olitical P oetry from L ate S tuart C ambridge
Cambridge Poems on the peace of 1697
David Money 271
Index of Names and Places 299
Contributors
Tommi Alho is a Marie Skł odowska-Curie Individual Fellow in the
Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of
Innsbruck. His research focuses on history of science, Latin linguistics and
the history of classical education. He has edited (with Jason Finch and Roger
D. Sell) the volume Renaissance Man: Essays on Literature and Culture for
Anthony W. Johnson (2019). His publications include Classical Education in
the Restoration Grammar School: A Case Study of Orationes et Carmina
aliaque exercitia (Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Lit. MS E41) (PhD diss.,
Å bo Akademi University, 2020) and (with Aleksi M ä kil ä hde and Elizabeth
Sandis) ‘Grammar War Plays in Early Modern England: From Entertainment
to Pedagogy’, Renaissance Drama 48 (2), 2020.
William M. Barton studied Latin and Greek in Britain and Canada before
specialising in the early modern literatures in these languages for his doctoral
studies. His early research focused on the representation of the natural world
in Neo-Latin literature between 1450 and 1750, and the role of the ancient
languages in communication between natural philosophers in early modern
Europe and the Americas. His current work explores the use of ancient Greek
in Western Europe among humanists and later scholars as part of
contemporary religio-political discourse and evolving concepts of (phil-)
hellenism. In his research at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin
Studies, Innsbruck, he has concentrated on the uses of humanist Greek in the
early modern Austrian, German and English contexts.
Jason Harris is Lecturer in the School of History and Director of the Centre
for Neo-Latin Studies in University College Cork, Ireland. His research is
focused on the intellectual culture of the early modern world with a particular
interest in Neo-Latin prose style and its connection to wider cultural debates.
He has translated and written about Latin texts emerging from the early
modern Irish Catholic diaspora and about the intellectual world of scholars
who lived through the Revolt of the Netherlands.
Stephen J. Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of
Oxford and Senior Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and
has published widely on classical Latin literature and its later reception. He is
currently working on an edition with commentary of George Buchanan’s
Silvae and has ongoing research interests in the Latin poetry of the Baroque
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period. He is co-editor of the texts and anthologies strand of Bloomsbury’s
Neo-Latin Series.
Aaron J. Kachuck was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, until 2021,
when he took up the chair of Latin Authors and Latin Literature at Universit é
Catholique de Louvain. Working on the intersections of poetry, religion and
empire in the age of Augustus and its aft erlives, he is the author of Th e Solitary
Sphere in the Age of Virgil (2021) and is currently writing a book on the Latin
dream-form in literary history as well as a ‘Green and Yellow’ commentary
on the Satires of Persius.
Micha Lazarus is Frances A. Yates Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute.
He works on the intellectual history of Renaissance Europe, with particular
interests in Greek learning in sixteenth-century England, book history and
the infl uence of the Classics on Reformation thought. His work has appeared
in journals such as R enaissance Quarterly , Classical Receptions Journal ,
Renaissance Studies , Studies in Philology , Review of English Studies and
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes as well as in numerous edited
collections. Previously a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, he
has held visiting fellowships at Harry Ransom Center, Dumbarton Oaks, the
Folger Shakespeare Library, the Renaissance Society of America and the
Herzog August Bibliothek, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London (UCL)
and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published
widely on classical Latin authors (including Cicero, Ennius and Valerius
Flaccus) as well as on Neo-Latin literature. Publications in the latter fi eld
include several articles on Th omas Campion as well as the edited collection
Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (with L. B. T. Houghton; 2012). She is co-
editor of the texts and anthologies strand of Bloomsbury’s Neo-Latin Series.
Benedick C. F. McDougall is a PhD candidate in Classics at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. His thesis explores experimentation with temporalities
in ancient collections of poetry, particularly anthologies of Greek epigram
and oracular verse. His research focuses on Hellenistic and late-antique
epigram and elegy, humanist Greek and the history of classical scholarship.
David McOmish is a research fellow at the University of Venice Cà Foscari,
in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. He works on the
epistemological and personal networks of knowledge exchange in Europe,
with a special focus on the role played by cosmopolitan communities of
scholars in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century intellectual culture (cosmology
and philosophy) within early modern universities. He has published on this
subject and its broader literary culture.
Contributors ix
David Money studied at Oxford as an undergraduate and received a PhD
from Cambridge in 1993. He has been a fellow of Magdalene, Darwin and
Wolfson Colleges in Cambridge. Much of his work has been devoted to
British Neo-Latin, including verse produced by university students and
scholars from the sixteenth century until the 1760s. He has contributed to
larger projects, such as Th e Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Th e
History of Oxford University Press , the correspondences of Robert Boyle and
of Archbishop Ussher, and Th e Paston Treasure (2018). He composes Latin
poetry, for example in the online journal V ates ; his attempts to encourage
others to revive these skills, less popular now than they were in 1500–1700,
can be seen in the website ‘Inter Versiculos’ hosted by the University of
Michigan.
Lucy R. Nicholas is Lecturer in Latin and Ancient Greek at the Warburg
Institute and a Teaching Fellow in the Classics department at King’s College
London (KCL). She has co-edited two other Neo-Latin anthologies within this
series. She has also published extensively on the mid-Tudor humanist Roger
Ascham, including a recently co-edited volume with Brill, R oger Ascham and
his Sixteenth-Century World (2020), and her edition of his Th emata Th eologica
is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. She is also the Latin editor for the Th omas
Nashe Project and a participant in the Baroque Latinity Network.
Elizabeth Sandis is a theatre historian specialising in Neo-Latin dramatic
traditions of the early modern period. Trained as a Classicist, she moved into
English studies to complete a doctorate at Merton College, Oxford, on the
place of student drama in the culture of English university life, before taking
up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Th e Shakespeare Institute,
University of Birmingham. Her monograph, Early Modern Drama at the
Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals , is the fi rst study of university
drama to cover the Tudor and Stuart periods (2022).
Caroline Spearing currently holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship in the English Department at Exeter University, where she is
researching the anthologies of occasional verse produced by the Universities
of Oxford and Cambridge between 1625 and 1660. She has also published on
the Plantarum Libri Sex of Abraham Cowley. Recent work includes
translations of Hadrianus Junius’ pamphlet on the stinkhorn mushroom
Phallus Hadriani (1564) and of Johann Faber’s description of the legendary
canis Mexicana (1628).
Sharon van Dijk is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of
Birmingham, where she is working on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Th e
Correspondence of Huldrych Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius: