Renaissance retrospections : Tudor views of the Middle Ages /
Kelen, Sarah A.,1968-editor.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
Introduction: The body and the book in early modern readings of the medieval English past / Sarah A. Kelen -- The resurrected corpus : history and reform in Bale's Kynge Johan / Dan Breen -- When polemic trumps poetry : buried medieval poem(s) in the Protestant print I Playne Piers / Kathy Cawsey -- The work of Robert Langland / Thomas A. Prendergast -- The monkish Middle Ages : periodization and polemic in Foxe's Acts and monuments / Jesse M. Lander -- "That auntient authoritie" : Old English laws in the writings of William Lambarde / Rebecca J. Brackmann -- The rebel kiss : Jack Cade, Shakespeare, and the chroniclers / Kellie Robertson -- At Hector's tomb : fifteenth-century literary history and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida / William Kuskin -- Owning the Middle Ages : history, trauma, and English identity / Nancy Bradley Warren.
English literature
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Literature and history