Wallace The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-85719-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The ordinary; 2. The self; 3. The word; 4. The dead.

Über Autor(innen)

Wallace, Andrew
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.