CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

SARAH KNIGHT AND STEFAN TILG

PART I. LANGUAGE AND GENRE

1. Classical Latin—Medieval 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 R. 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 A. R. DE SMET

PART II. CULTURAL CONTEXTS

14. School

ROBERT BLACK

15. University

SARAH KNIGHT

16. Philosophy

GUIDO GIGLIONI

17. Science and Medicine

BRIAN W. 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

FRANÇOISE WAQUET

PART III. COUNTRIES AND REGIONS

25. Italy

DAVID MARSH

26. France

PAUL WHITE

27. The British Isles

ESTELLE HAAN

28. The German-Speaking Countries

ROBERT SEIDEL

29. Iberian Peninsula

ALEJANDRO COROLEU AND CATARINA FOUTO

30. The Low Countries

DIRK SACRÉ

31. Scandinavia

ANNIKA STRÖM AND PETER ZEEBERG

32. East-Central Europe

CRISTINA NEAGU

33. Colonial Spanish America and Brazil

ANDREW LAIRD

34. North America

JEAN-FRANÇOIS COTTIER, HAIJO WESTRA, AND JOHN GALLUCCI

35. Asia

NOËL GOLVERS

General References

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Index