Reading the Medieval in Early Modern EnglandGordon McMullan, David Matthews In English literary and historical studies the border between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, and hence between 'medieval' and 'early modern' studies, has become increasingly permeable. Written by an international group of medievalists and early modernists, the essays in this volume examine the ways in which medieval culture was read and reconstructed by writers, editors and scholars in early modern England. It also addresses the reciprocal process: the way in which early modern England, while apparently suppressing the medieval past, was in fact shaped and constructed by it, albeit in ways that early modern thinkers had an interest in suppressing. The book deals with this process as it is played out not only in literature but also in visual culture - for example in mapping - and in material culture - as in the physical destruction of the medieval past in the early modern English landscape. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 31 |
Section 2 | 34 |
Section 3 | 35 |
Section 4 | 51 |
Section 5 | 74 |
Section 6 | 91 |
Section 7 | 106 |
Section 8 | 119 |
Section 11 | 152 |
Section 12 | 154 |
Section 13 | 156 |
Section 14 | 159 |
Section 15 | 167 |
Section 16 | 172 |
Section 17 | 179 |
Section 18 | 193 |
Section 9 | 143 |
Section 10 | 150 |
Section 19 | 205 |
Section 20 | 213 |
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