Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England

Escobedo, Andrew

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“…He not only wanted to take "early national history seriously as history," but also wished to create a means by which the recovery of that history could be legitimated. 60 This is not to say that Spenser ignored the very real dangers of his phantasmatic history. Spenser's use of the work "beguile" in the passage in which Arthur "forgate .…”

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Spenser's Phantastic History, The Ruines of Time, and the Invention of Medievalism

Prendergast¹

2008

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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There is not in this country any monuments of antiquity left, but certain fabulous histories and that lately written. -Bishop RobinsonFor that at my late being there, I espied an heap of old papers and parchments . . . now my fantasie is, that in some of them will be some mention made of Noble men and Jentelmen of those days. Whereby (eyther for chronicle, or pedigree) some good matter be collected out of them by me (at my leysor) by way of a recreation.-Doctor Dee at Wigmore Abbey When Bishop Robinson responded to Archbishop Parker's request for information about the existence of "ancient records and monuments," he essentially outlined the great hermeneutical problem that haunted latesixteenth-century English antiquarians. 1 Many of the documents, records and monuments had vanished or, worse yet, been destroyed in the interests of the Reformation. Those monuments that did survive were often dismissed as products of "abbie-lubbers," romances that failed to live up to the new humanistic standards of history. 2 What disqualified these romances as history was their fabulous, that is, lying, nature. Indeed, as a number of critics have pointed out, the great danger was that they might be believed. Yet, this destruction or dismissal of monuments presented something of a problem. For without monuments, one can have no history. 3 One writer who offered a strategy for a history in the absence of monuments was Edmund Spenser. Like Doctor Dee, he phantasized about the substance of things unseen and created his own history, indeed his own chronicle. 4 Most early

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Spenser's Phantastic History, The Ruines of Time, and the Invention of Medievalism

Prendergast¹

2008

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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“…There was always within early-modern apocalyptic a tension between realization and deferral, as the terrifying prospect of the imminent arrival of the end of time was constantly put off in order to provide the space for a liveable future. 70 And the presentist, gloomy interpretation of Revelation was increasingly challenged at an intellectual level in the 1620s and 1630s by two new approaches. First, it became less pessimistic.…”

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Apocalyptic Ireland: 1580–1641

Ford

2013

Irish Theological Quarterly

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Historians of early-modern Ireland have studied in some detail the association between religion and violence, but have failed to appreciate one important theological force—the application of apocalyptic passages of the bible to contemporary events. This ‘presentist’ interpretation of prophecy, common throughout Reformation Europe, began to be used in Ireland by Protestant soldiers, officials, and writers from the time of the Desmond Rising in 1579 onwards. By identifying the Pope as Antichrist, and Catholics as his followers, it served to sharpen the antipathy between Protestants and Catholics, and justify violent actions such as the massacre of the Spanish troops at Smerwick in 1580. The advent of peace in 1603 and the rise of Arminianism in England limited official enthusiasm for apocalyptic, but its central position in the Irish Protestant imagination was reinforced by the 1641 rising, which seemed to confirm biblical prophecies about the severity of the Antichristian Catholic threat.

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The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Nation

Royal¹

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom

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Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England

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Spenser's Phantastic History, The Ruines of Time, and the Invention of Medievalism

Spenser's Phantastic History, The Ruines of Time, and the Invention of Medievalism

Apocalyptic Ireland: 1580–1641

The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Nation

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