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William Camden's Annales of Elizabeth I: Antiquity and the Present

William Camden's Annales of Elizabeth I: Antiquity and the Present

McNamara, James
Manuwald, Gesine
Harrison, Stephen

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin

LatinLiterary CriticismAncient Rome

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 13, 2027

ISBN10: 1350592692
ISBN13: 9781350592698
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 13 2027
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This open access book presents the first extended study of a seminal literary work, the Annales by William Camden; the first continuous history of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), written by a contemporary soon after the queen's death. James McNamara reassesses the Annales in Latin, challenging a number of recent misconceptions about the work and interpreting it in the context of contemporary Humanist traditions of history writing.

The Annales continues to exert a profound influence on how the history of the period is understood and retold, but there has been disagreement about how to interpret the work, in large part because little attention has been paid to the original Latin text. By paying close attention to Camden's use of Latin, his rhetorical technique and his intertextual engagement with classical literature, this book helps to clarify both points of detail and major unresolved interpretive questions. It restores an awareness of Camden's subjectivity, while arguing that recourse to classical Humanism allowed him to appeal to a broad, transconfessional European readership. Challenging anachronistic claims about Camden's proto-modern historical technique, it demonstrates that the Annales is a more sophisticated literary product than recent scholarship has allowed, and provides a new basis for scholarly handling of the Annales as a representation of the Elizabethan age.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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