Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Claudian, Prudentius, Augustine, Jerome, Boethius, and Isidore. The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, with fifty chapters by forty-one scholars, is the first book to treat the immensely diverse literature of these six centuries together in such generous detail. The book shows authors responding to momentous changes, and sometimes shaping or resisting them: the rise of Christianity, the introduction of the codex book, and the end of the western Roman Empire. The contributors' accounts of late antique Latin literature do not shy away from controversy, but are always clear, succinct, and authoritative. Students and scholars wanting to explore unfamiliar areas of Late Antiquity will find their starting point here.
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The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries.
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;
31. Sermons Hildegund Müller;
32. Historical writing Peter Van Nuffelen;
33. Chronicles Richard Burgess;
34. Biography Christa Gray;
35. Epistolography Jennifer Ebbeler;
36. Fiction
Lucy Grig and Aaron Pelttari;
37. Legal writing, its forms, and influence
Matthijs Wibier;
38. Philosophical writing, its forms, and influence Gerard
O'Daly;
39. Technical and encyclopaedic literature Thorsten Fögen;
40. Epic
Roger Green;
41. Epigram Nigel Kay;
42. The hymn Jean-Louis Charlet; VI. From
the Last Years of the Western Empire to the Seventh Century:
43. Latin
literature in early Byzantium Brian Croke;
44. Post-Roman Spain Carmen
Codoñer;
45. Vandal and Byzantine North Africa Gregory Hays;
46. Ostrogothic
and Byzantine Italy Ian Fielding;
47. Post-Roman gaul Danuta Shanzer;
48. The
post-Roman British Isles Michael Lapidge;
49. Literature and Romanitas in the
post-Roman West Danuta Shanzer; Epilogue: the critical opportunity of later
Latin literature in the twentieth century Mark Vessey.
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).
