Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England

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Gordon McMullan, David Matthews
Cambridge University Press, Jul 30, 2007 - Drama - 287 pages
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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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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Gordon McMullan is Reader in English at King's College London. David Matthews is Lecturer in Middle English Literature and Culture, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

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