Author: Paulina Kewes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199565759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 811
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The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Author: Raphael Holinshed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781391938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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"From the time of Noah's flood to the end of Roman dominion."
Author: Raphael Holinshed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Author: Annabel Patterson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226649115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles—a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland—has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen, members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern censorship. An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature, Reading Holinshed's Chronicles brings into full view a long misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.
Author: John Capgrave
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. Yet if we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Many of them were men of high intelligence whose interpretation of events sheds clear light on what happened. Christopher Given-Wilson is one of the leading authorities on medieval English historical writing. He examines how medieval writers such as Ranulf Higden and Adam Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. He looks at the ways in which chronicles were used during the middle ages, and at how the writing of history changed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Author: Raphael Holinshed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Author: Raphael Holinshed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Author: William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: Robert Fabyan
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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