Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature [Hardcover]

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.1. Barbarian Memory and the Uncanny Past 2. Chaucer, Gower, and Barbarian History 3. Rome, Christianity, and Barbarian Memory in Titus Andronicus 4. Rhyme, Barbarism, and Manners from Trissino to Corneille

Nicholas Birns is Associate Teaching Professor at the New School, USA. He is the author of Understanding Anthony Powell and Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory From 1950 to the Early 21st Century, as well as the co-editor of A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book in 2008.