Now available: Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari (eds), The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, 2 vols, Cambridge: CUP, 2026.
Contents:
1. Histories of later Latin literature Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari
I. Later Latin Literature in its Social and Linguistic Contexts:
2. The book in the later Roman world Justin Stover
3. Teaching and learning W. Martin Bloomer
4. Latin prose rhythm Gavin Kelly
5. Latin metre Franca Ela Consolino
6. Greek and Latin in the Roman world Bruno Rochette
7. Geographical space and Roman world image Sigrid Mratschek
8. Patronage David Ungvary
II. From the Age of Trajan to the Age of Constantine:
9. Literary culture in the second century James Uden
10. Latin sophists and rhetors Neil Bernstein
11. Latin poetry of the high empire Bruce Gibson
12. The beginnings of Christian latin literature Éric Rebillard
13. Literary culture in the new empire of Diocletian and Constantine Catherine Ware
III. The Empire after Constantine:
14. Literature and government in the post-Constantinian empire John Weisweiler
15. Literature and the church in the post-Constantinian empire Mark Vessey
16. Augustine Catherine Conybeare
17. Looking back from late antiquity: perspectives on the Roman past in the fourth and fifth centuries Christopher Kelly
18. Poetry in the fourth century Roger Green
19. Claudian and his influence Isabella Gualandri
IV. Models and Trends:
20. The survival and reception of earlier Latin literature in the later empire Gavin Kelly
21. Vergil in late antiquity Scott McGill
22. Scripture in Latin Aaron Pelttari
23. Secular and Christian commentaries Ilaria Ramelli
24. Paratexts Aaron Pelttari
25. The autobiographical turn Catherine Conybeare
26. Invective Richard Flower
27. Late antique literary aesthetics Isabella Gualandri
V. Generic Change and Continuity:
28. Generic innovation and diversity Ilaria Ramelli
29. Rhetoric in theory and practice Diederik Burgersdijk
30. Panegyric Roger Rees
31. Sermons Hildegund Müller
32. Historical writing Peter Van Nuffelen
33. Chronicles Richard Burgess
34. Biography Christa Gray
35. Epistolography Jennifer Ebbeler
36. Fiction Lucy Grig and Aaron Pelttari
37. Legal writing, its forms, and influence Matthijs Wibier
38. Philosophical writing, its forms, and influence Gerard O’Daly
39. Technical and encyclopaedic literature Thorsten Fögen
40. Epic Roger Green
41. Epigram Nigel Kay
42. The hymn Jean-Louis Charlet
VI. From the Last Years of the Western Empire to the Seventh Century:
43. Latin literature in early Byzantium Brian Croke
44. Post-Roman Spain Carmen Codoñer
45. Vandal and Byzantine North Africa Gregory Hays
46. Ostrogothic and Byzantine Italy Ian Fielding
47. Post-Roman gaul Danuta Shanzer
48. The post-Roman British Isles Michael Lapidge
49. Literature and Romanitas in the post-Roman West Danuta Shanzer
Epilogue: the critical opportunity of later Latin literature in the twentieth century Mark Vessey