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

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Barbarian Memory and the Uncanny Past....Pages 1-43 Chaucer, Gower, and Barbarian History: “The Man of Law’s Tale” and the Prologue to Gower’s Confessio Amantis....Pages 44-59 Rome, Christianity, and Barbarian Memory in Titus Andronicus....Pages 60-78 Rhyme, Barbarism, and Manners from Trissino to Corneille....Pages 79-125 Back Matter....Pages 126-131