In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and

Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern

Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes

From early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection of thirty-one essays sets literary texts in their historical contexts.