Baroque Latinity

I have nothing but praise for this extremely fine collection of studies on various aspects of the Baroque. It is a book that fills a major gap in the literature

I have nothing but praise for this extremely fine collection of studies on various aspects of the Baroque. It is a book that fills a major gap in the literature

Is it a style, a period, a way of expressing grandeur or channeling emotions? Baroque Latinity tackles the complex question of what it is that makes a Neo-Latin text ‘baroque’. This will no doubt become key reading for anyone else interested in Neo-Latin writings from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Jacqueline Glomski is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK, Vice-President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS), and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has co-edited the collected volumes S eventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives (forthcoming), Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (2016), and Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (2015).

Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer, Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK. He has published widely on Renaissance literature and has edited Neo-Latin and Translation in the Renaissance (2014), T he Early Modern Cultures of Neo-Latin Drama (2013), and Neo-Latin and the Pastoral (2006), the latter two both with Philip Ford.

Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbury, 2012) with Luke Houghton.