List of figures and tables I. Introduction FLORIS VERHAART, Introduction: Latin and the Enlightenment LAURENCE BROCKLISS, The empire of Latin II. Constructing Identity FLORIS VERHAART, A Humanist Identity in an Enlightened Age: Neo-Latin Poetry, Canon Building, and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in the Dutch Republic SIMON WIRTHENSOHN, Enlightened tendencies in eighteenth-century school theatre: the dramatic oeuvre of Joseph Resch ANDREW LAIRD, Creole Latin legacies and the European Enlightenment STEFAN TILG, Latin public, Latin literature, and Latin nationalism in eighteenth-century Hungary III. Authority KATHERINE A. EAST, Locating Latin in the heterodox exchanges of Enlightenment England: Toland and his critics JOHN T. GILMORE, 'Non interpres, sed poeta': William Jones and his 'Ode Sinica' IV. Development of new ideas and knowledge MALIKA BASTIN-HAMMOU, The uses of Latin in Madame Dacier's Greek scholarship: a story of emancipation MATTHEW FOX, Latin Critical Theory in the Early Eighteenth Century NICHOLAS MITHEN, Vico among the critics: Latin and philology in the gestation of the Scienza Nuova ALESSANDRO OTTAVIANI, Mapping diseases and dissecting landscapes: Giovan Battista Morgagni's Latin prose from the Adversaria anatomica ot the Epistolae Aemilianae V. Diffusion of Ideas ESTELLE HAAN, Humanism and scientific invention in the Neo-Latin poetry of Enlightenment England SCOTT MANDELBROTE, Newton in Latin: An Enlightenment Author and his European Audience JAN PAPY, Lecture notes from Leuven University 1750-1793: The Scientific Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Classroom? ELENA DAHLBERG, Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Latin Dissertations from Sweden, ca.

1755-1815 DANIEL WENDT, Ab omni verborum obscoenitate purgata? Latin obscenities, audiences, and humanism in the French Enlightenment Author biographies Summaries Bibliography Index.