Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland

Philip Schwyzer

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Renaissance Literature and Culture Literature: history, themes, analysis Historical Studies of British Isles

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ABSTRACT This essay explores a range of medieval and early modern English texts, including the alliterative poem St. Erkenwald and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and View of the Present State of Ireland, inwhich the remains of subjugated peoples are exhumed and subsequently made to disappear. These texts, it is argued, participate in a tradition of colonial archaeology in which the cleansing of the earth is a step toward the creation of an English homeland.

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1986Heathens and Saints: St. Erkenwald in Its Legendary Context 1956THE REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES 1981Saints Alban and Amphibalus in the Works of Matthew Paris: Dublin, Trinity College MS 177

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