Latin Language and the Enlightenment

Floris Verhaart is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. His research comprises the history of early modern Europe, as well as Neo-Latin Studies. His publications include Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic (1690-1750): Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns (Oxford, 2020). Laurence Brockliss is emeritus professor of early modern French History at the University of Oxford whose principal area of research is the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment. His books in the field include French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1987) and Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 2002).

• List of figures and tablesI. IntroductionFLORIS VERHAART, Introduction: Latin and the EnlightenmentLAURENCE BROCKLISS, The empire of LatinII. Constructing IdentityFLORIS 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 RepublicSIMON WIRTHENSOHN, Enlightened tendencies in eighteenth-century school theatre: the dramatic oeuvre of Joseph ReschANDREW LAIRD, Creole Latin legacies and the European EnlightenmentSTEFAN TILG, Latin public, Latin literature, and Latin nationalism in eighteenth-century HungaryIII. AuthorityKATHERINE A. EAST, Locating Latin in the heterodox exchanges of Enlightenment England: Toland and his criticsJOHN T. GILMORE, ‘Non interpres, sed poeta’: William Jones and his ‘Ode Sinica’IV. Development of new ideas and knowledgeMALIKA BASTIN-HAMMOU, The uses of Latin in Madame Dacier’s Greek scholarship: a story of emancipationMATTHEW FOX, Latin Critical Theory in the Early Eighteenth CenturyNICHOLAS MITHEN, Vico among the critics: Latin and philology in the gestation of the Scienza NuovaALESSANDRO OTTAVIANI, Mapping diseases and dissecting landscapes: Giovan Battista Morgagni’s Latin prose from the Adversaria anatomica ot the Epistolae AemilianaeV. Diffusion of IdeasESTELLE HAAN, Humanism and scientific invention in the Neo-Latin poetry of  Enlightenment EnglandSCOTT MANDELBROTE, Newton in Latin: An Enlightenment Author and his European AudienceJAN 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. 1755–1815DANIEL WENDT, Ab omni verborum obscoenitate purgata? Latin obscenities, audiences, and humanism in the French EnlightenmentAuthor biographiesSummariesBibliographyIndex