The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

Stefan Tilg is Professor of Latin at the University of Freiburg. Before that, he was the first director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. His main publications are from the fields of Latin Jesuit drama and ancient fiction. Sarah Knight is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester. Her main research and teaching interests are in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English and Latin literature. She has edited and translated several early modern Latin works, including Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, the accounts of Elizabeth I's visits to the University of Oxford, and John Milton's Prolusions.

Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction, Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg Part I. Language and Genre 1 Classical Latin-Mediaeval Latin-Neo-Latin, Keith Sidwell 2 Neo-Latin's Interplay with Other Languages, Demmy Verbeke 3 Lyric Poetry, Victoria Moul 4 Narrative Poetry, Florian Schaffenrath 5 Epigram and Occasional Poetry, David Money 6 Comedy, Stefan Tilg 7 Tragedy, Gary Grund 8 Oratory, Marc Van Der Poel 9 Political Advice, Erik de Bom 10 Historiography, Patrick Baker 11 Letters, Jan Papy 12 Fiction, Mark T. Riley 13 Satire, Ingrid De Smet Part II. Cultural Contexts 14 School, Robert Black 15 University, Sarah Knight 16 Philosophy, Guido Giglioni 17 Science and Medicine, Brian Ogilvie 18 Contacts with the Arab World, Dag Nikolaus Hasse 19 Biblical Humanism, Andrew Taylor 20 Catholicism, Jason Harris 21 Protestantism, Irena Backus 22 Political Action, Marc Laureys 23 Gender, Diana Robin 24 Social Status, Francoise Waquet Part III. Countries and Regions 25 Italy, David Marsh 26 France, Paul White 27 British Isles, Estelle Haan 28 German-Speaking Countries, Robert Seidel 29 Iberian Peninsula, Alejandro Coroleu and Catarina Fouto 30 Low Countries, Dirk Sacre 31 Scandinavia, Peter Zeeberg and Annika Stroem 32 East-Central Europe, Cristina Neagu 33 Colonial Spanish America and Brazil, Andrew Laird 34 North America, Jean-Francois Cottier, Haijo Westra, and John Gallucci 35 Asia, Noel Golvers General References, Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg