Anglo-Latin macaronic verse in early modern England: A new survey of manuscript evidence

Latin-vernacular macaronic verse is a distinctive feature of early modern literary culture across Europe. Scholarship has, however, focused upon Italian examples; the production such in England has been particularly little studied, with existing analyses Anglo-Latin based on very small corpus printed poems from seventeenth and eighteenth centuries only. This survey previously unconsidered manuscript evidence demonstrates many kinds England, at least 1550s onwards, including new examples both ‘morphological’ (in which Latin poem contains some English words inflected as if they were Latin) ‘simple’ (comprising various other language mixture). The article includes for knowledge poetry sixteenth-century England; evolving trends typical uses macaronic—from ad hominem satire earliest periods to more generally humourous or topical century; use rhyme borrowings languages (including Greek, French Italian) macaronic; importance sources especially assessing prevalence relatively ‘popular’ informal types bilingual literature, verse.