Anglo-Latin literature

Anglo-Latin literature is literature from Britain originally written in Latin. It is used to refer to literature written in Latin from parts of Britain which were not in England or English-speaking, because "Anglo-" is used here as a prefix meaning British rather than English.

Early medieval

• Gildas (c. 500 – c. 570)
• 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 [or Ealhwine] of York, c. 735 – 19 May 804)
• Historia Brittonum (c. 828)
• Asser (d. 908/9)

Central medieval

• Orderic Vitalis (1075 – c. 1142)
• William of Malmesbury (c. 1080/1095 – c. 1143)
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100 – c. 1155), Historia Regum Britanniæ
• John of Salisbury (c. 1120 – c. 1180)
• Gervase of Tilbury (c. 1150 – c. 1228)
• Gerald of Wales (1146 - 1243)
• Michael Scot (1175 – c. 1232)
• Alexander of Hales (c. 1185 – 1245}
• Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294)
• Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – 8 November 1308)
• 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
• George Buchanan (February 1506 – 28 September 1582)

Modern literature

• Franciscus Baconus (Francis Bacon, 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), Novum Organum
• John Barclay (28 January 1582 — 15 August 1621), Argenis
• Thomas Hobbesius (Thomas Hobbes, 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679)
• Arthur Johnston (c.1579–1641)
• John Johnston (1570?–1611)
• 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
• Vincent Bourne (1695 – 1747)

Further reading

• Carlson, David (2011). "Anglo-Latin literature in the later Middle Ages". In Andrew Galloway (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 195–216. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521856898.010. ISBN 9780511975646. Retrieved 2013-11-01. 
• Echard, Siân and Gernot R. Wieland (eds.) (2001). Anglo-Latin and its heritage: essays in honour of A.G. Rigg on his 64th birthday. Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 4. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 2503508383. 
• Lapidge, Michael (1993). Anglo-Latin literature, 900–1066. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 1852850124. 
• Lapidge, Michael (1996). Anglo-Latin literature, 600–899. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 1852850116. 
• Rigg, A.G. (1992). A History of Anglo-Latin Literature, 1066–1422. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521415942. 
• Rigg, A.G. (1996). "Anglo-Latin". In Timothy J. McGee (ed.). Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 46–61. ISBN 0253210267. 
• Sharpe, Richard (1997). A handlist of the Latin writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 2503505759.  Reprinted with a supplement in 2001.
• White, Carolinne (2002). "Medieval senses of classical words". Peritia 16: 131–143. doi:10.1484/J.Peri.3.482. 

See also

• British literature
• Hiberno-Latin
• Latin literature
• Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
• Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources