• Contributors
• Preface, Ralph Hexter and David Townsend
• I. Framing the Field: Problematics and Provocations
• 1. The Current Questions and Future Prospects of Medieval Latin Studies, David Townsend
• 2. Canonicity, Ralph Hexter
• II. Latinity as Cultural Capital
• 3. Latin as an Acquired Language, Carin Ruff
• 4. Latin as a Language of Authoritative Tradition, Ryan Szpiech
• 5. The Cultures and Dynamics of Translation into Medieval Latin, Thomas E. Burman
• 6. Regional Variation: The Case of Scandinavian Latin, Karsten Frijs-Jensen
• 7. The Idea of Latinity, Nicholas Watson
• III. Manuscript Culture and the Materiality of Latin Texts
• 8. Readers and Manuscripts, Andrew Taylor
• 9. Gloss and Commentary, Rita Copeland
• 10. Location, Location, Location: Geography, Knowledge, and the Creation of Medieval Latin Textual Communities, Ralph Hexter
• IV. Styles and Genre
• 11. Prose Style, Gregory Hays
• 12. Verse Style, Jean-Yves Tilliette [translated from French]
• 13. Crossing Generic Boundaries, A. G. Rigg
• 14. Textual Fluidity and the Interaction of Latin and the Vernacular Languages, Brian Murdoch
• V. Systems of Knowledge
• 15. Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts, Andrew Hicks
• 16. Mythography, Winthrop Wetherbee
• 17. Biblical Thematics: The Story of Samson in Medieval Literary Discourse, Greti Dinkova-Bruun
• 18. The Language, Form and Performance of Monophonic Liturgical Chants, Susan Boynton and Margot Fassler
• VI. Medieval Latin and the Fashioning of the Self
• 19. Regimens of Schooling, Mia Münster-Swendsen
• 20. Gender, Sylvia Parsons and David Townsend
• 21. Sex and Sexuality, Larry Scanlon
• 22. Medieval Latin Spirituality: Seeking Divine Presence, Anne Clark
• 23. Modes of Self-Writing From Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, Gur Zak
• VII. Periodizations
• 24. Late Antiquity, New Departures, Marco Formisano
• 25. Renaissances and Revivals, Monika Otter
• 26. Humanism and Continuities in the Transition to the Early Modern, Ronald Witt
• 27. Medieval Latin Texts in the Age of Printing, Paolo Chiesa [translated from Italian]
• 28. Medieval Latin in Modern English: Translations from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Jan Ziolkowski
• Chronology of Medieval Latin Authors
• Index