Reinventing the Middle Ages & the Renaissance
Subtitle: constructions of the medieval and early modern periods
By: edited by William F. Gentrup.
Contributors: Gentrup, William F., 1953-
Series: Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ;; v. 1
Publisher: Brepols; Brepols (distributed); Brepols Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Renaissance in literature -- Congresses.; Renaissance -- England -- Congresses.; Medievalism -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- To 1066 -- Historiography -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1066-1485 -- Historiography -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Historiography -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Historiography -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Rev. and expanded version of papers presented at a conference held 1995.
Table of contents: title: The wasteland of Loegria : Geoffrey of Monmouth's reinvention of the Anglo-Saxon past / John D. Niles; title: Richard Verstegan's reinvention of Anglo-Saxon England / Richard W. Clement; title: Pagans and Christians, Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Saxonists / Anne Savage; title: Congruet desires : medievel and modern reconstruction of Irish and Welsh literary artififacts / Daniel F. Melia; title: Politics, prodigality, and the reception of Chaucer's Purse / Thomas A. Prendergast; title: Defining the "discipline" of Reformation studies / Kenneth J.E. Graham; title: Jonson, the myth of Sidney, and nostalgia for Elizabeth / Robert L. Entzminger; title: Gloriana goes to Hollywood : Elizabeth I on film, 1937-1940 / Renée Pigeon; title: "Lawrels for the conquered" : Virgilian translation and travesty in the English Civil War and its aftermath / Paul N. Hartle; title: The fireside Vikings and the the "Boy's own" Vinland : Vinland in popular English and American literature (1841-1926) / Geraldine Barnes; title: Agnes of Sorrento : Harriet Beecher Stowe's medieval correction to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun / Caroline Gebhard; title: Alexander Grosart's Donne and Marvell / Charles Larson; title: "Women are knights-errant to the last" : nineteenth-century women writers reinvent the medieval literary damsel / Natalie Joy Woodall; title: Medieval narrative conventions and the putative antimedievalism of Twain's Connecticut Yankee / Anita Obermeier.