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Hardcover Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature Book

ISBN: 1137364556

ISBN13: 9781137364555

Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature

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This book investigates the use of Late Antique European history (roughly, the fall of Rome and the establishment of barbarian kingdoms) by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. Barbarian memory in this era was seen as at once a rousing evocation of ethnic origin and an embarrassing reminder of an era of disruptive invasions and strange, uncouth names within a European fabric that desired...

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