The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs
Published on 9. September 2020
268 pages
978-1-108-85719-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'... the work is a masterpiece of comparative literature in the best sense of that term. It is innovative, well researched, and clearly written, and it deepens and enriches our understanding of 'Rome' as a place, idea, and transcendent category of selfhood in medieval and early modern 'Britain.'' Aaron Kitch, Modern Philology 'Wallace's book ... is a solid tribute to the presence of Rome, classical and Christian, in our civilization.' Winthrop Wetherbee, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Halftones, black and white
File size
4,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-85719-2 (9781108857192)
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Andrew Wallace
The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs
Book
09/2020
Cambridge University Press
€105.50
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Content
1. The ordinary; 2. The self; 3. The word; 4. The dead.
