Welcome to the site of the Teaching Committee of the IANLS! On this site, you will find open access material for use in your teaching, both at high school and university level. Enjoy exploring and discovering a huge amount of texts that can help enrich your teaching. The resources are organised into three categories:
- Collections: this contains links to anthologies or sites where several texts are brought together.
- Single author editions: this has links to editions of individual authors.
- Activities: this area contains material generated from activities we as a Committee have organised ourselves. Currently, it contains material from a digital workshop on Teaching Neo-Latin held in October 2024.
If you know of other sites that offer open access material for teaching Neo-Latin, please contact the chair of the Teaching Committee. The Committee will evaluate new links and, subject to approval, add them to this site.
Editions for Students
Collections
Dalet
DaLeT (Database of the Leuven Trilingue) is the first database devoted to an early modern trilingual institute, the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense. It is in Dutch and contains annotated texts that are apt for use in high schools. General editors are Raf Van Rooy, Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, KU Leuven.
Mittel- und Neulatein macht Schule!
Mittel- und Neulatein macht Schule! initiated by the Abteilung für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit and the Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and supported by the Neulateinischen Gesellschaft.
A collection of longer and shorter texts (excerpts) from various regions and periods (10th through 17th century), in various genres, and by a diversity of writers, including women, presented with vocabulary, short introductions including an author biography and a bibliography for further reading
Neo-Latin Anthology
The Neo-Latin anthology compiled by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies is for the use of teachers of Latin everywhere. The range of texts and authors will be particularly valuable to tutors, students and researchers working on Neo-Latin sources. The anthology includes texts of varying levels of difficulty, so that individual tutors can select texts for their own pedagogical purposes. The aim is to create as diverse and wide-ranging an anthology as possible: prose, epic, pastoral, lyric, satirical and panegyric texts are included, ranging from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
Open Iberia/América
Open Iberia/América offers editions with English and/or Spanish translation and commentary of premodern Iberian and Latin American texts; the commentary is aimed at undergraduate students. General editor is David Wacks of the University of Oregon.
Project Nota
Project Nota – Latin letters and works of famous women founded by Sophia He (junior) and middle and high school Latin teacher in Sandusky, Ohio Laura Petersen.
Relying on volunteers with diverse skills and perspectives, this project provides educational resources for Latin texts written by women including digitized editions of the Latin texts and translations into languages such as English, French, and Spanish. Students can also become members of Project Nota by taking part in the gathering, editing, and translating of these works.
Sal Musarum
Sal Musarum, a website run by Sandra I. Ramos Maldonado, University of Cádiz. It makes available classical, medieval, and Neo-Latin texts, the majority with commentary in Latin in the style of the methodus Oerbergiana.
School for Medieval and Neo-Latin
The School for medieval and Neo-Latin, based at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and directed by Stefan Tilg, and run in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck and the University of Zurich, offers a huge range of digitized medieval and early modern Latin texts, mostly without a commentary.
The Latin ReadHer App
The Latin ReadHer App is a free app which hosts Latin texts and English translations of women’s Latin from the 2nd century BCE until the 19th century. The project was funded by a SCS Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities grant from the Society for Classical Studies.
Singular editions
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536)
Duo Colloquia Erasmiana, annotationibus iocundissimis aptisque ad usum scholarum instructa a Mariia Timoshchuk (KU Leuven).
Utamini, quaesumus, iis ut placebit!
Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
Toribio Pérez, P. 2020. Newton on Theology: Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Theological Section from the General Scholium to the Principia Mathematica, London: Bloomsbury. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/234227 (open access).
Annotated Latin text with short introduction and English translation intended for students. The text is extracted from the theological section of Newton’s Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Print version: P. Toribio, ‘Newton on Theology’, in G. Manuwald, D. Hadas and L. R. Nicholas (eds), An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature, London: Bloomsbury, 2020, 267–78.
Isotta Nogarola (1418–1466)
Boyle, F.; S. A. Chapman; D. Goud; T. G. Hendrickson; S. Karmali; K. Leininger; J. A. Stern & A. Wilson-Bivera 2022. Isotta Nogarola, Defense of Eve: A Latin Text of the De Pari aut Impari Evae atque Adae Peccato with Running Vocabulary and Commentary. Pixelia Publishing. URL: https://pixeliapublishing.org/isotta-nogarolas-defense-of-eve/ (open access and available for purchase as a paperback).
The introduction provides background on Nogarola, humanism, the history of feminism, and notable features of post-classical Latin.
Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481)
Hendrickson, T. G.; A. B. Berman; P. Croak; D. Gridley; S. Herrera; J. Lee; G. Rigby; J. Robinson; G. C. Sommer; K. Ueno & J. Whittemore 2017. Bartolomeo Platina: Lives of the Popes, Paul II. An Intermediate Reader of Renaissance Latin. URL: http://www.faenumpublishing.com/platina.html (open access and available for purchase as a paperback).
Text with vocabulary and grammatical help and introduction to the author, renaissance Rome, as well as notable features of Neo-Latin grammar and syntax.
Elizabeth J. Weston (1581–1612)
Bret Mulligan, Celia Levy, Claire Pettit, Claudia van Vloten, Erica S. Collin, Felix K. Bieneman, Hannah Rebecca Cohen, Harry Cottrell, Mary Anna Ball, Priya Nwakanma, Rowan Killina, eds., Select Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston, Pixelia Publishing. URL: https://pixeliapublishing.org/book/westonia/ (open access and available for purchase as a paperback).
Editions with Latin commentary for undergraduate readers and ample introduction to Weston’s life and works.
Audio
Neo-Latin Podcast
The Neo-Latin Podcast hosted by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies explores Neo-Latin literature, introducing a Neo-Latin author and their work in each episode. Its aim is to demonstrate the wealth and diversity of Neo-Latin literature.
Studia Latinitatis
The YouTube-channel and website of the Freiburg based project Studia Latinitatis Friburgensia provides audio-recordings of various ancient, late ancient and Neo-Latin texts.
Activities
Materials from the online workshop “Teaching Neo-Latin: texts, materials, didactic challenges” (30 October 2024)
On 30 October 2024, the Teaching Committee of the IANLS, in collaborartion with the Warburt Institute London, the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS), the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of KU Leuven, organised a digital workshop “Teaching Neo-Latin: texts, materials, didactic challenges”. The aim of the online encounter was to bring together researchers and teachers interested or involved in the teaching of Neo-Latin texts at both school and university level.
Three speakers of the event have kindly consented to publish their material on the IANLS website for free use:
- Eugenia Sisto (Warburg Institute, London), ‘A new understanding of Latin: the case of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia’ (Powerpoint, Syllabus, Talk)
- Pieter Vynckier (Leuven), ‘The Laudatio Borysthenis of Feofan Prokopovych (1705), which he used to teach poetics at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the Latin classroom’ (Syllabus, Explicatio, Lectiones)
- Katharina-Maria Schön (University of Groningen), ‘Neo-Latin Literature during Italian Fascism and German National Socialism’ (Handout)
All copyrights remain with the authors.