A History of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature.

Scandinavian Studies | March 22, 1996| | Copyright

Ed. Minna Skafte Jensen. Odense University Studies in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures 32. Odense: Odense University Press, 1995. Pp. 374. DKK 350.

Neo-Latin literature is the term applied to the large body of books, pamphlets, letters, and manuscripts that were composed in a revived classical style that spread northward from Renaissance Italy. It is an artificial language created by a humanist elite, and with the rise of vernaculars it became more exclusively the language of academics vying for power and patronage in early modern courts and especially the ...

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