List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface INTRODUCTION (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 1 Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium 2 British Neo-Latin Literature 3 Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres 4 Aims and Coverage of this Volume 5 Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions 6 Further Reading TEXTS 1 Utopia: Elsewhere and Nowhere Thomas More (1478-1535), Extracts from Utopia (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 2 An Early Tudor Antiquarian at Bath John Leland ( c. 1503-1552), De thermis Britannicis (Andrew W. Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK) 3 The Nature of the Universe George Buchanan (1506-1582), De sphaera 1.

1-51 (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 4 A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I's Coronation in Verse Walter Haddon (1515-1572), In . Elisabethae regimen (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 5 The Latin University Orations of Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Speeches of 1566 and 1592 (Sarah Knight, University of Leicester, UK) 6 Female Funerary Verse Elizabeth Hoby, Lady Russell (1540-1609), Epitaphic Poems (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 7 On Writing about Britain William Camden (1551-1623), Prefatory Letter to Britannia (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK) 8 A Birthday Poem for Christ Adam King ( c. 1560-1620), Genethliacon Iesu Christi ( c. 1586) (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 9 On Poetry, Politics and Religion John Owen ( c. 1560-1622), Selection of Epigrams (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK) 10 A Comic Exorcism George Ruggle (1575-1622), Ignoramus IV 11 (Daniel Hadas, KCL, UK) 11 'Dazel'd thus with height of place': An English Lyric in Two Latin Versions English: Henry Wotton (1568-1639); Latin: Anonymous [Georg Weckherlin (1584-1653)?] (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK) 12 A Meeting in Mauritania John Barclay (1582-1621), Argenis , Book 5, Chapter 8 (9) (Jacqueline Glomski, UCL, UK) 13 The Gunpowder Plot John Milton (1608-1674), In Quintum Novembris (Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 14 A Frost Fair on the Thames William Baker, Descriptio Brumae (1634/5) (George Pounder, Glenalmond College, Scotland) 15 The Beauty and Horror of the Mountains Thomas Burnet ( c. 1635-1715), Telluris theoria sacra 1.

1.9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria) 16 A Satire on the Bishop of Salisbury Anonymous (Thomas Brown?), In Episcopum Quendam ( c. 1689) (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK) 17 A View of the Scottish Highlands James Philp (1656/7- c. 1713), Grameid 3.10-36 (L. B. T.

Houghton, UCL, UK) 18 Thomas Gray Prophesies Space Travel Thomas Gray (1716-1771), Luna habitabilis 51-72, 78-95 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK) Index.