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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
