For the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies, which we co-edit, we are planning an anthology of Neo-Latin Literature by women from the time of Petrarch to 1800. Stephen Harrison (Oxford) and Gesine Manuwald (UCL).
This would be analogous to An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars (2024), An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities (2022), An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature (2020) and An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature (2020), all previously published in the series – see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bloomsbury-neolatin-series-early-modern-texts-and-anthologies/. As in those volumes, there would be a substantial introduction by the editors surveying the topic.
We envisage a volume of some 80,000 words with some 20 contributions of about 4,000 words each. As in the other anthologies above, contributions would each have a brief introduction, followed by a Latin text with parallel English translation and an outline commentary. Previous experience suggests that this would fit a Latin verse text of no more than 150 lines or a prose text of no more than a few pages. Extracts from larger works would be suitable; this would be normal for prose. Complete poems would be preferred where possible.
We invite expressions of interest in contributing to such a volume, and also suggestions for items for inclusion and the names of potential contributors. On the poetry side, the rich appendix of women Latin poets in Jane Stevenson’s seminal Women Latin Poets (Oxford, 2005) gives an extensive list, and there is a general account of female writers in Diana Robin’s chapter ‘Gender’, in Sarah Knight, and Stefan Tilg (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (2005), 367-78.
Please contact both of us simultaneously with any suggestions and / or expressions of interest in contributing (stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk and g.manuwald@ucl.ac.uk) by 31 March 2024.
