Author: GildasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author
Author: GildasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of Our Lord, 546. And who by His Great Erudition, Sanctitie, and Wisedome, Acquired the Name of Sapiens
Author: Gildas (Sapiens)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue of English Theology, Published in February, 1829, Now on Sale at the Low Prices Affixed
Author: William StrongCatalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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Author: The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Author: Andrew WallacePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108853390
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome's enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism
Author: Michael ModarelliPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429785607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.
Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Old Books
Author: A Catalogue of Theological Books, Forming a Part of the Library of William Harrison, Esq. of Cheshunt, Herts
Author: William HarrisonCeltic Shakespeare
Author: Rory LoughnanePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317169050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and there has been interest too in the ways in which Irish, Scottish and Welsh critics, editors and translators have reimagined Shakespeare, claiming, connecting with and correcting him. This collection fills a major gap in literary criticism by bringing together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and crucibles of conflict. The volume is divided into three chronologically ordered sections: Tudor Reflections, Stuart Revisions and Celtic Afterlives. This division of essays directs attention to Shakespeare's transformed treatment of national identity in plays written respectively in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, but also takes account of later regional receptions and the cultural impact of the playwright's dramatic works. The first two sections contain fresh readings of a number of the individual plays, and pay particular attention to the ways in which Shakespeare attends to contemporary understandings of national identity in the light of recent history. Juxtaposing this material with subsequent critical receptions of Shakespeare's works, from Milton to Shaw, this volume addresses a significant critical lacuna in Shakespearean criticism. Rather than reading these plays from a solitary national perspective, the essays in this volume cohere in a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of national identity.