Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England

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List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: reading the medieval in early modern England David Matthews and Gordon McMullan Part I. Period: 1. Diachronic history and the shortcomings of Medieval Studies James Simpson 2. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and the rhetoric of temporality Deanne Williams Part II. Text: 3. Langland, apocalypse and the early modern editor Larry Scanlon 4. Public ambition, private desire and the last Tudor Chaucer David Matthews Part III. Nation: 5. The vulgar history of the Order of the Garter Stephanie Trigg 6. Myths of origin and the struggle over nationhood in medieval and early modern England Anke Bernau 7. The colonisation of early Britain on the Jacobean stage Gordon McMullan Part IV. Geography: 8. Tamburlaine, sacred space and the heritage of medieval cartography Bernhard Klein 9. Leland's Itinerary and the remains of the medieval past Jennifer Summit Part V. Reformation: 10. John Bale and reconfiguring the 'medieval' in Reformation England Cathy Shrank 11. Medieval penance, Reformation repentance and Measure for Measure Sarah Beckwith 12. Medieval poetics and Protestant Magdalenes Patricia Badir Afterword David Wallace Notes Select bibliography Index.

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