Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles / edited by Paulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, and Felicity Heal.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013, ©2013.

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Additional Authors

• Kewes, Paulina.
• Archer, Ian W.
• Heal, Felicity.

Description

xxxvii, 772 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare. While scholars have long been drawn to Holinshed for its qualities as a source, they typically dismissed it as a baggy collection of materials, lacking coherent form and analytical insight. This condescending verdict has only recently given way to an appreciation of the literary and historical qualities of these chronicles. The Handbook is a major interdisciplinary undertaking which gives the lie to Holinshed's detractors, and provides original interpretations of a book that has lacked sustained academic scrutiny. Bringing together leading specialists in a variety of fields - literature, history, religion, classics, bibliography, and the history of the book - the Handbook demonstrates that the Chronicles powerfully reflect the nature of Tudor thinking about the past, about politics and society, and about the literary and rhetorical means by which readers might be persuaded of the truth of narrative. The volume shows how distinctive it was for one book to chronicle the history of three nations of the British archipelago. The various sections of the Handbook analyze the making of the two editions of the Chronicles; the relationship of the work to medieval and early modern historiography; its formal properties, genres and audience; attitudes to politics, religion, and society; literary appropriations; and the parallel descriptions and histories of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The result is a seminal study that shows unequivocally the vitality and complexity of the chronicle form in the late sixteenth century."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
• Holinshed's Chronicles

Subject

• Holinshed, Raphael, approximately 1525-1580?
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > 16th century
• Literature and history > Great Britain
• Great Britain > History > Historiography. > To 1485
• Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Tudors, 1485-1603

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The making of Holinshed. The Genesis of the Two Editions / Felicity Heal And Henry Summerson ; Printers, Publishers, and the Chronicles as Artefact / David Scott Kastan And Aaron T. Pratt ; Censorship / Cyndia Susan Clegg ; Sources: 1577 / Henry Summerson ; Sources: 1587 / Henry Summerson ; Harrison's 'Chronology' and Descriptions of Britain / Glyn Parry ; Illustrations in the 1577 Edition / James A. Knapp. -- Historiography. Holinshed and the Native Chronicle Tradition / Alexandra Gillespie and Oliver Harris ; Holinshed and Mythical History / Laura Ashe ; Holinshed and the Middle Ages / Harriet Archer ; Leland and Other Precursors / James Carley ; Holinshed and Hall / Scott Lucas ; Holinshed and Foxe / Susannah Monta and Thomas S. Freeman ; Later Historians and Holinshed / Wyman Herendeen ; The Wider World of Chronicling / Daniel Woolf. -- Form, style, and reception. Genres / Tricia McElroy ; Rhetoric / Jennifer Richards ; Holinshed and the Classics / Judith Mossman ; Shows and Pageants / Elizabeth Goldring and Jayne Elisabeth Archer ; Narrative Voice and Influencing the Reader / Matthew Woodcock ; Readership and Reception / Felicity Heal. -- Politics, society, and religion. Monarchy / John Watts ; Social Order and Disorder / Ian W. Archer ; Religious Ideology / Peter Marshall ; Providentialism / Alexandra Walsham ; War / Paul E. J. Hammer ; The International Context / Steven Gunn ; Tudor Kings and Queens / Susan Doran. -- Literary appropriations. History Plays and the Royal Succession / Paulina Kewes ; Shakespeare and Medieval History / Igor Djordjevic ; Shakespeare and British History / Richard Dutton ; Spenser and Holinshed / Richard A. McCabe ; Daniel and Holinshed / Gillian Wright ; Later Appropriations / Bart van Es. -- Archipelagic Holinshed. Archipelagic History / Philip Schwyzer ; Mapping England and Wales / Alfred Hiatt ; England / Ralph Houlbrooke ; Scotland / Roger Mason ; Ireland / Colm Lennon ; Wales / Ralph Griffiths.

Call Number

JFE 13-3450

ISBN

• 9780199565757
• 0199565759

OCLC

785874178

Title

The Oxford handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles / edited by Paulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, and Felicity Heal.

Imprint

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013, ©2013.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kewes, Paulina.

Archer, Ian W.

Heal, Felicity.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-3450