Useful surveys include Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History (1994; originally published in German, 5th rev. ed. 1890); Martin Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Literatur bis zum Gesetzgebungswerk des Kaisers Justinian, rev. by Carl Hosius and G. Kruger, 4 vol. in 5 (1914–35, reissued 1966–71); Augusto Rostagni, Storia della letterature latina, 3rd ed., 3 vol. (1964), sumptuously illustrated; Eduard Norden, Die römische Literature, 6th ed. (1961); Italian, 1987); and Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey (eds.), Women Writing Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, 3 vol. (2002). Detailed and documented accounts include H.J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature from : From the Earliest Times to the Death of St. Augustine, 3rd ed. (1954, reprinted with supp. bibliog.a supplementary bibliography, 1966; reissued 1996); and E.J. Kenney and W.V. Clausen (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. 2, Latin Literature (1982); and Michael von Albrecht, A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius: With Special Regard to Its Influence on World Literature, rev. by Gareth Schmeling and Michael von Albrecht, 2 vol. (1997; originally published in German, 1992).
Books on history and literary culture in ancient Rome include J. Wight Duff, A Literary History of Rome: From the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age, 3rd ed., ed. edited by A.M. Duff (1953, reprinted 1967); David S. Potter, and A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age: From Tiberius to Hadrian, 3rd ed., ed. by A.M. Duff (1964), is a standard introduction containing comprehensive and scholarly surveys, with supplementary bibliographies. Shorter accounts are J.W. Mackail, Latin Literature, 2nd rev. ed. (1896, reissued 1966); Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (1999), an approach to historiography; and Elaine Fantham, Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius (1996).
General surveys of the literature of the period include Michael Grant, Roman Literature, new ed. (1958, reissued 1967); and Karl Buchner, Römische Literaturgeschichte, 5th ed. (1980). On poets, see W.Y. Sellar, The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd ed. (1889, reprinted 1965), The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil, 3rd ed. (1897, reprinted 1965), and The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets, 2nd ed. (1899, reprinted 1965); Ward W. Briggs (ed.), Ancient Roman Writers (1999). Examinations of poetry include H.E. Butler, Post-Augustan Poetry from Seneca to Juvenal (1909, reprinted 1977); and J. Wight Duff, Roman Satire (1936, reissued 1964). General works include H. Bardon, La Littérature latine inconnue (1952); F. Klingner, Römische Geisteswelt, 5th ed. (1965, reprinted 1979); M.L. Clarke, Rhetoric at Rome (1953, reprinted 1968), and The Roman Mind (1956, reissued 1968); Ellen Greene (ed.), Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome (2005); and Kirk Freudenburg (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (2005).
Among other relevant works on general topics are S.F. Bonner, Roman Declamation in the Late Republic and Early Empire (1949, reprinted 1969); W. Beare, The Roman Stage, 3rd rev. ed. (1964, reprinted 1977), and Latin Verse and European Song (1957); and Gordon Williams, Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry (1968). For an account of Latin studies see M. Platnauer ; William J. Dominik (ed.), Fifty Years (and Twelve) of Classical Scholarship, 2nd rev. ed. (1968); and the annual bibliography in L’Année philologique, published by the International Society of Classical Bibliography in Paris. Posthumous Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature (1997); and Erik Gunderson, Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000). The posthumous influence of various authors is traced in G. Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949, reprinted 1957reissued 1985); and R.R. Bolgar, The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries (1954, reprinted 1977).
Adolf Ebert, Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters in Abendland, 2nd ed., 3 vol. (1880–89, reprinted 1971); Gustavo Vinay, Alto midioevo latino: conversazioni e no (1978); Bernhard Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien, 2 vol. (1966–67); Christine Mohrmann, Études sur le latin des chrétiens, 3 vol. (1958–61); K. Strecker, Introduction to Medieval Latin (1957, reissued 1968; originally published in German, 2nd ed., 1929); Giovanni Cremaschi, Guida allo studio del latino medievale (1959); F.A. Wright and T.A. Sinclair, A History of Later Latin Literature from the Middle of the Fourth to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1931, reprinted 1969); M. Hélin, A History of Medieval Latin Literature, rev. ed. (1949, originally published in French, 1943); Pierre De Labriolle, Histoire de la littérature latine chrétienne, 2 vol., 3rd ed. (1947); M.Valuable introductions to Latin literature of the period include M.L.W. Laistner, Thought and Letters in Western Europe, A.D. 500 to 900, new ed. (1957); Max Manitius, Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, 3 vol. (1923–31, reprinted 1965–74); J. De Ghellinck, Littérature latine au moyen age, 2 vol. (1939), L’Essor de la littérature latine au XIIe, 2 vol. (1946); C.H. Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927, reissued 1971); and Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1953, reprinted 1983; originally published in German, 1948). On the poetry of the period, see Frederic J.E. Raby, A History of Christian-Latin Poetry from the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. (1953, reprinted 1966), and useful books are Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets (2000); Thomas H. Bestul, Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society (1996); Frederic J.E. Raby, A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages, 2 vol., 2nd ed. (1957, reprinted 1967); Max Manitius, Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie (1891); Dag L. Norberg, La Poésie latine rhythmique du Haut Moyen Age (1954); Jacques Fontaine, Naissance de la poésie dans l’occident Chrétien (1981); and Peter Godman (ed.), Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance (1985).Renaissance
P. Van Tieghem, La Littérature latine de la Renaissance (1944, reprinted 1966); Wilfred P. Mustard (ed.), Studies in the Renaissance Pastoral, 6 vol. (1911–31); Georg Ellinger, Geschichte der neulateinischen Literatur Deutschlands im sechzehnten Jahrhundert, 3 vol. (1929–33, reprinted 1969); Wolfgang Mann, Lateinische Dichtung in England vom Ausgang der Frühhumanismus bis zum Regierungsantritt Elisabeths (1939); John Sparrow, “Latin Verse of the High Renaissance,” in E.F. Jacob (ed.), Italian Renaissance Studies (1960); Alessandro Perosa and John Sparrow (eds. and comps.), Renaissance Latin Verse: An Anthology (1979)More specialized studies of topics that were once generally neglected are David Townsend and Andrew Taylor (eds.), The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Latin (1998); and Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter (eds.), Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition (1997).
The period is treated in Wilfred P. Mustard (ed.), Studies in the Renaissance Pastoral, 6 vol. (1911–31), dated but still valuable; Roberto Weiss, The Dawn of Humanism in Italy (1947, reprinted 1970), The Spread of Italian Humanism (1964), and Humanism in England During the Fifteenth Century, 3rd ed. (1967); and Hans Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (1966 Alison Knowles Frazier, Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (2005); and Ronald G. Witt, In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (2000).