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

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.

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

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.

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.

Her main interest in the chapter, however, is to develop a fuller genealogy of early modern mythography, arguing for humanist miscellanies like the Lectiones antiquae of Rhodiginus (1542) as the missing

The protagonists emerge as prisoners of genealogy and circumstance, although their self-knowledge is crucially, unevenly distributed. ... 1094-1107. This essay reflects upon Renaissance writers’ self-reflexive meditations on literary genealogy, by