The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

GAVIN KELLY is Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian (Cambridge, 2008), Two Romes, edited with Lucy Grig (2012), and the Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris (2020). AARON PELTTARI is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity (2014) and The Psychomachia of Prudentius (2019).

• 1. Histories of later Latin literature Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari; I. Later Latin Literature in its Social and Linguistic Contexts: 2. The book in the later Roman world Justin Stover; 3. Teaching and learning W. Martin Bloomer; 4. Latin prose rhythm Gavin Kelly; 5. Latin metre Franca Ela Consolino; 6 Greek and Latin in the Roman world Bruno Rochette; 7. Geographical space and Roman world image Sigrid Mratschek; 8. Patronage David Ungvary; II. From the Age of Trajan to the Age of Constantine: 9. Literary culture in the second century James Uden; 10. Latin sophists and rhetors Neil Bernstein; 11. Latin poetry of the high empire Bruce Gibson; 12. The beginnings of Christian latin literature Éric Rebillard; 13. Literary culture in the new empire of Diocletian and Constantine Catherine Ware; III. The Empire after Constantine: 14. Literature and government in the post-Constantinian empire John Weisweiler; 15. Literature and the church in the post-Constantinian empire Mark Vessey; 16. Augustine Catherine Conybeare; 17. Looking back from late antiquity: perspectives on the Roman past in the fourth and fifth centuries Christopher Kelly; 18. Poetry in the fourth century Roger Green; 19. Claudian and his influence Isabella Gualandri; IV. Models and Trends: 20. The survival and reception of earlier Latin literature in the later empire Gavin Kelly; 21. Vergil in late antiquity Scott McGill; 22. Scripture in Latin Aaron Pelttari; 23. Secular and Christian commentaries Ilaria Ramelli; 24. Paratexts Aaron Pelttari; 25. The autobiographical turn Catherine Conybeare; 26. Invective Richard Flower; 27. Late antique literary aesthetics Isabella Gualandri; V. Generic Change and Continuity: 28. Generic innovation and diversity Ilaria Ramelli; 29. Rhetoric in theory and practice Diederik Burgersdijk; 30. Panegyric Roger Rees.