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Italian contexts, brings renewed insight to the question of the Amoretti’s genealogy.

Landreth’s book thus participates in an unexpected genealogy of political economy by delineating the generative tensions driving its development in sixteenth-century England.

The strength of this book lies in its encyclopedic overview and gestures toward an intellectual genealogy for fama rather than in any new critical or conceptual apparatus for understanding it (though

Yet for those seeking a thorough genealogy of the classical, biblical, Medieval, and Early Modern discourses driving the persistent trope of the ruin from Petrarch to Spenser, Hui’s book is

That French poets invented a Trojan genealogy for the French kings does not contradict, much less invalidate the fact that English poets were doing the same thing for English princes.

In their editions, Luis-Martínez and Hernández-Santano answer this challenge by offering richly detailed accounts of the local contexts and particular intellectual genealogies from which their works arose.

Like any good Hassidic story, this one has a convoluted genealogy.

Day’s workshop, as Kinsella demonstrates, was staffed almost entirely by Dutch exiles, and the genealogy of English martyrs in Foxe’s huge book owes much to continental models.

In the discussion of foundation myths, in the study of genealogy, language, institutions, legal systems and even ruins, England always came out on top.

Like any good Hassidic story, this one has a convoluted genealogy.