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Reading the medieval in early modern England

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Reading the medieval in early modern England / edited by Gordon McMullan and David Matthews.

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Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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xiv, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Reading the medieval in early modern England / David Matthews and Gordon McMullan -- Part I. Period -- 1. Diachronic history and the shortcomings of Medieval Studies / James Simpson -- 2. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and the rhetoric of temporality / Deanne Williams -- Part II. Text -- 3. Langland, Apocalypse, and the early modern editor / Larry Scanlon -- 4. Public ambition, private desire, and the last Tudor Chaucer / David Matthews -- Part III. Nation -- 5. The vulgar history of the Order of the Garter / Stephanie Trigg -- 6. Myths of origin and the struggle over nationhood in medieval and early modern England / Anke Bernau -- 7. The colonisation of early Britain on the Jacobean stage / Gordon McMullan -- Part IV. Geography -- 8. Tamburlaine, sacred space, and the heritage of medieval cartography / Bernhard Klein -- 9. Leland's itinerary and the remains of the medieval past / Jennifer Summit -- Part V. Reformation -- 10. John Bale and reconfiguring the 'medieval' in Reformation England / Cathy Shrank -- 11. Medieval penance, Reformation repentance, and Measure for Measure / Sarah Beckwith -- 12. Medieval poetics and Protestant Magdalenes / Patricia Badir.

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