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• catalog abstract ""This book describes how the legendary history of Britain, the so-called British History based on Geoffrey of Monmouth, continued to influence the Renaissance English sense of ancient Britain, and proposes a reason for this influence. Given what scholars have noted about the "historical revolution" of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this influence should not have been felt, and the British History should have been by then wholly obsolete, its medieval myth-making replaced by the more trustworthy notions offered by humanism and antiquarianism. But it was not obsolete. Instead, the British History affected the historical conceptions of even the leaders of the "historical revolution," and retained in other writers some stubborn defenders. This study locates the main cause for this abiding presence of the British History in its relevance to Protestant patriotism." "The book proceeds by describing in detail the six phases of Geoffrey's competition with Rome as Renaissance writers appropriated them, transformed them and made them part of the nation's understanding of its past. The first phase discussed is ecclesiastical history, as English writers from various quarters tried to formulate a non-Roman ancient British church by drawing from medieval mythology. Thereafter the book examines the Protestant uses of the anti-Roman narrative as Geoffrey set it forth: Britain's founding as Rome's rival, another Trojan civilization; Britain's promulgation of ancient laws and its sack of Rome; Britain's heroic and almost successful resistance to Caesar's invasion; Britain's continued resistance but final capitulation to the Romans in the first century A.D.; and the victory of Britain's King Arthur over the Romans, the climax of his career and of the competition with Rome. Though each phase was riven with historiographical problems, each found adherents and even affected the most enlightened writers like William Camden himself."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12582449.
• catalog coverage "Great Britain History Invasions Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "Rome In literature.".
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""The book proceeds by describing in detail the six phases of Geoffrey's competition with Rome as Renaissance writers appropriated them, transformed them and made them part of the nation's understanding of its past. The first phase discussed is ecclesiastical history, as English writers from various quarters tried to formulate a non-Roman ancient British church by drawing from medieval mythology.".
• catalog description ""This book describes how the legendary history of Britain, the so-called British History based on Geoffrey of Monmouth, continued to influence the Renaissance English sense of ancient Britain, and proposes a reason for this influence. Given what scholars have noted about the "historical revolution" of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this influence should not have been felt, and the British History should have been by then wholly obsolete, its medieval myth-making replaced by the more trustworthy notions offered by humanism and antiquarianism. But it was not obsolete. Instead, the British History affected the historical conceptions of even the leaders of the "historical revolution," and retained in other writers some stubborn defenders.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-319) and index.".
• catalog description "The competition with Rome -- The one true church -- Origins -- Victory and the law -- Invasion -- Defeat -- Defrayal.".
• catalog description "Thereafter the book examines the Protestant uses of the anti-Roman narrative as Geoffrey set it forth: Britain's founding as Rome's rival, another Trojan civilization; Britain's promulgation of ancient laws and its sack of Rome; Britain's heroic and almost successful resistance to Caesar's invasion; Britain's continued resistance but final capitulation to the Romans in the first century A.D.; and the victory of Britain's King Arthur over the Romans, the climax of his career and of the competition with Rome. Though each phase was riven with historiographical problems, each found adherents and even affected the most enlightened writers like William Camden himself."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "This study locates the main cause for this abiding presence of the British History in its relevance to Protestant patriotism."".
• catalog extent "325 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Roman invasions.".
• catalog identifier "0874137780 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Roman invasions.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Roman invasions.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain History Invasions Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog spatial "Rome In literature.".
• catalog subject "820.9/358 21".
• catalog subject "Catholic Church In literature.".
• catalog subject "Catholics in literature.".
• catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English literature Protestant authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 16th century.".
• catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "PR428.H57 C87 2002".
• catalog subject "Protestantism and literature History 16th century.".
• catalog subject "Protestantism and literature History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Romans Great Britain Historiography.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The competition with Rome -- The one true church -- Origins -- Victory and the law -- Invasion -- Defeat -- Defrayal.".
• catalog title "Roman invasions : the British history, Protestant anti-Romanism, and the historical imagination in England, 1530-1660 / John E. Curran, Jr.".
• catalog type "text".