Renaissance Retrospections

Tudor Views of the Middle Ages

Edited by Sarah A. Kelen

Book cover: Renaissance Retrospections

Extent: 244 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2013)

ISBN: 9781580441742

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $19.95

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Hardback (Published)

(May 2013)

ISBN: 9781580441735

6.14 x 9.21 inches

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From Shakespeare’s manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, essays explore the ways that early modern writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, intertextuality and cultural history.


The Middle Ages provided an important, if complex, set of literary and historiographic models for early modern authors, although the early modern authors responded to the alien political, religious, and cultural landscape of medieval England through their more present ideological concerns. From Shakespeare’s manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, this collection of essays explores the ways that early modern English writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, intertextuality, and cultural history.

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Body and the Book in Early Modern Readings of the Medieval English Past by Sarah A. Kelen The Resurrected Corpus: History and Reform in Bale's Kynge Johan by Dan Breen When Polemic Trumps Poetry: Buried Medieval Poem(s) in the Protestant Print I Playne Piers by Kathy Cawsey The Work of Robert Langland by Thomas A. Prendergast The Monkish Middle Ages: Periodization and Polemic in Foxe's Acts and Monuments by Jesse M. Lander "That auntient authoritie": Old English Laws in the Writings of William Lambarde by Rebecca J. Brackmann The Rebel Kiss: Jack Cade, Shakespeare, and the Chroniclers by Kellie Robertson At Hector's Tomb: Fifteenth-Century Literary History and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida by William Kuskin Owning the Middle Ages: History, Trauma, and English Identity by Nancy Bradley Warren Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index, Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Body and the Book in Early Modern Readings of the Medieval English Past by Sarah A. Kelen
The Resurrected Corpus: History and Reform in Bale's Kynge Johan by Dan Breen
When Polemic Trumps Poetry: Buried Medieval Poem(s) in the Protestant Print I Playne Piers by Kathy Cawsey
The Work of Robert Langland by Thomas A. Prendergast
The Monkish Middle Ages: Periodization and Polemic in Foxe's Acts and Monuments by Jesse M. Lander
"That auntient authoritie": Old English Laws in the Writings of William Lambarde by Rebecca J. Brackmann
The Rebel Kiss: Jack Cade, Shakespeare, and the Chroniclers by Kellie Robertson
At Hector's Tomb: Fifteenth-Century Literary History and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida by William Kuskin
Owning the Middle Ages: History, Trauma, and English Identity by Nancy Bradley Warren
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

  • Edited by Sarah A. Kelen