The Latin Language and the Enlightenment

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