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The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England : Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English.

"Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century ... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past." Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brackmann, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Brewer, Boydell & amp ; 2012.
Colección:Studies in Renaissance literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century ... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past." Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of the Old English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the perio.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:9781846159589
184615958X