Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Steven J. Reid -- 1 France through the Eyes of Scottish Neo-Latinists: Snapshots from the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum / Steven J. Reid -- 2 A Community of Scholarship: Latin Literature and Scientific Discourse in Early-Modern Scotland / David McOmish -- 3 The Scottish Fourth Eclogue / L.B.T. Houghton -- 4 Peter Goldman: A Dundee Poet and Physician in the Republic of Letters / William Poole -- 5 The King Returns: The Muses' Welcome (1618) / Roger P.H. Green -- 6 Andrew Melville, the "Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria", and the English Church / Robert Cummings -- 7 A Classic Send-Off: The Funeral Oration of George Keith, Fourth Earl Marischal (1623) / Miles Kerr-Peterson -- 8 Arthur Johnston (c. 1579-1641): A Scottish Neo-Latin Poet in Europe / Alexander Farquhar -- 9 Arthur Johnston's "Dedication" to the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum / Gesine Manuwald -- 10 James Dundas on Seneca, Descartes and the Fall / Alexander Broadie -- 11 The Decline of Latin in the Scottish Universities / Ralph McLean -- Index.

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Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to examine a wide variety of aspects of Scottish Latin culture, including: Scottish participation in Latinate humanist circles across Europe, particularly in France and England; scientific, philosophical and didactic Latin culture in Scotland prior to the Scientific Revolution; and the reception of classical literature in Scotland, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. It also features in-depth examinations and translated excerpts of several key works, including the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam, 1637) and The Muses' Welcome (Edinburgh, 1618). Contributors are: Alexander Broadie, Robert Cummings, Alexander Farquhar, Roger Green, L.B.T. Houghton, Miles Kerr-Peterson, Ralph McLean, David McOmish, Gesine Manuwald, William Poole, and Steven J. Reid.