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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459624003321

Autore

Djordjevic Igor

Titolo

Holinshed's nation : ideals, memory, and practical policy in the Chronicles / / Igor Djordjevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-317-12145-7

1-317-12144-9

1-4724-5900-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

941.0072

Soggetti

Historiography - Great Britain - History - 16th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain History To 1485 Historiography

Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviated Titles; Introduction; 1 Reading Early Modern Chronicles; 2 Hearing the Trumpet; 3 Reading with "True English Harts"; 4 Seeing the Mirror; 5 A Commonwealth of Readers; 6 Singing Hosanna: Medieval Echoes in the Caroline Twilight; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Igor Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinshed's Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance men and women read and understood historical texts. This study revaluates our understanding of Renaissance chronicle history and the impact of Holinshed on Tudor, Jacobean, and Caroline political discourse; the Chronicles emerge not as a series of rambling, digressive episodes characteristic to a dying medieval genre, but as the preserver of national memory, the teacher of prudent policy, and a builder of the commonwealth ideal.