The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs

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Andrew Wallace

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Hardback

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This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome's enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.

Author Biography:

Andrew Wallace is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University. He studies the classical tradition and is author of Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England (2010), along with essays on authors and topics ranging from Shakespeare and Spenser to Lily's Grammar.

Release date Australia

September 17th, 2020

Author

Andrew Wallace

Pages

350

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Halftones, black and white

Dimensions

160x235x25

ISBN-13

9781108496100

Product ID

33313099

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