Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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xxx, 218 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"The English Romance in Time Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare Helen Cooper" "T̀he English Romance in Time is a scholarly and engagingly written account of a genre, as suitable for a student as for an academic audience. It is important and innovative because of the way it uses romance to expose the medieval contribution to the early modern world.' --Alex Davis, Times Higher Education Supplement"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Celestial portents and apocalypticism in medieval Ireland -- 2.Druids, cloud-divination, and the portents of Antichrist -- 3.Taliesin and Geoffrey of Monmouth's astrological portents -- 4.Comets, portents, and astrology in late medieval Wales -- 5.Morgan Llwyd and the spiritualization of astrology.