Anglo-Latin literature

Anglo-Latin literature is literature from England and potentially other parts of English-speaking Britain originally written in Latin. A great deal of interest is invested in the literature of Britain in Germanic or Celtic languages, but literary production in Latin from medieval and post-medieval England and its insular neighbours is very rich.

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Early medieval

Anonymous, Vita sancti Cuthberti (c. 700)

Stephen of Ripon, Vita sancti Wilfrithi (709 x 720)

Bede (c. 672/673 – 25 May 735), Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Alcuin (Alcuin [or Ealhwine] of York, c. 735 – 19 May 804)

Central medieval

Orderic Vitalis (Orderic Vitalis, 1075 – c. 1142)

William of Malmesbury (William of Malmesbury, c. 1080/1095 – c. 1143)

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Geoffrey of Monmouth, c. 1100 – c. 1155), Historia Regum Britanniæ

Gerald of Wales, 1146 - 1243)

Roger Bacon (Roger Bacon, c. 1214 – 1294)

Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – 8 November 1308)

William of Ockham (William of Ockham, c. 1288 – c. 1348)

Late medieval and renaissance

Johannes Gower (John Gower, c. 1330 – October 1408), Vox Clamantis

Thomas Morus (Thomas More, 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), Utopia

Modern literature

Franciscus Baconus (Francis Bacon, 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), Novum Organum

Thomas Hobbesius (Thomas Hobbes, 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679)

Johannes Milton (John Milton, 9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674), Defensio pro Populo Anglicano, De Doctrina Christiana

Isaac Newton 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

See also