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By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
Classical Gains: How world languages enriched the Scottish cultural landscape
THE languages of Scottish Literature are normally understood to be Gaelic, Scots and English. But there’s a lot more to it than that, as Alan Riach and Alexander Broadie look beyond the immediate horizon to Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Muslim traditions …
Alan Riach: Alexander, we were talking last week about Scotland’s Latin writers but behind or alongside them there’s the Greek influence too, isn’t there?
Alexander Broadie: Around about 1510, Jerome Aleandro came to Paris offering to teach Greek. At first the authorities were reluctant because they understood that if the students studied Greek they might be able to study the New Testament in the original, and then wonder about the accuracy of the Latin version in daily use. Anyhow, Aleandro did te
By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
Essay
King James VI of Scotland, before he became James I of the abruptly United Kingdom in 1603
A new anthology of Scottish Latin poems centred on the reign of King James VI of Scotland, before he became James I of the abruptly United Kingdom in 1603, raises deep questions about that union, the centrality of the monarch and what “royalty” means. Alan Riach addresses them. Corona Borealis: Scottish Neo-Latin Poets on King James VI and his Reign, 1566–1603, edited by Steven J Reid and David McOmish (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2020)
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