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Spenser’s version of English literary history is the product of a double vision which balances a linear genealogy of direct influence with a more circumlocutory sequence of indirect mediation.

In short, when Elizabeth referred to the Gildas monument in her response to the Catholic bishops, she was linking her own genealogy to the Welsh myth of a Christian church established ... Or, to put it another way, one of Elizabeth’s first public

It is entitled ‘Writing Eighteenth-Century Religion’ and includes an article by Dr Philip Connell, ‘Afterword: Writing Religion and the Genealogy of the Literary Aesthetic’.

Multiple, competing lexical genealogies might well be allowed to share space in an argument (or a poem), and even an avowedly spurious etymology could be valued for its aptness.

Jones here is less interested in asserting a theological genealogy extending from Wycliffites to Protestants than he is in uncovering a shared rhetoric of polemical pastoral identity, one that may have

30 April–Jaclyn Rajsic (University of Cambridge). ‘The Rolling Text: using space in royal genealogies, c.

Impressively integrating intellectual, media, and political history, Millstone’s three case studies offer fresh readings of well-known events and personalities, providing a long-term genealogy for some distinctive features of