Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland

'Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland' is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to examine a wide variety of aspects of Scottish Latin culture, including: Scottish participation in Latinate humanist circles across Europe, particularly in France and England; scientific, philosophical and didactic Latin culture in Scotland prior to the Scientific Revolution; and the reception of classical literature in Scotland, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. It also features in-depth examinations and translated excerpts of several key works, including the 'Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum' (Amsterdam, 1637) and 'The Muses' Welcome' (Edinburgh, 1618).