Utter Antiquity: Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance England

(Part of the Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series)

by Arthur B. Ferguson

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Historians know a great deal about how English thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the "documentable" past, but relatively little about how they perceived times stretching back beyond history. Arthur B. Ferguson shows in this elegant essay that prehistory had great meaning in Renaissance England. Commentators of various sorts--from poets to antiquaries--looked to the most distant past for the vanishing point that would perfect...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0822312751

ISBN13:9780822312758

Release Date:October 1992

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:168 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

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Ancient Europe Folklore & Mythology France History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences Renaissance

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