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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.
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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
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