The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain Wallace Hardback

Name: The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain Wallace Hardback
Brand: Andrew Wallace

Andrew Wallace

The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern BritainTexts, Artefacts and Beliefs\nAuthor(s): Andrew Wallace\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108496100, 978-1108496100\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compas.