A study of the idea of inheritance in late medieval and early modern imaginative literature that shows continuities and coherence across the traditional divide of these periods.
A study of the idea of inheritance in late medieval and early modern imaginative literature that shows continuities and coherence across the traditional divide of these periods.
Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (2003) and Renaissance Historical Fiction (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Imagining Premodern Inheritance * Part I. Fictions of the Will * 1: 'A Very Perfect Forme of a Will': The Fictional Testament * 2: Out of Bounds: Testamentary Fiction From The Tale of Gamelyn to As You Like It * Part II. Natural Philosophy * 3: Petrified Unrest: Succession and Descent in Lancastrian Verse * 4: The Home-Bred Enemy: Inheritance and Constancy in Tudor and Stuart Writing * Part III. World Histories * 5: Heavenly Inheritances * 6: The System of the World: Inheritance, Money, Modernity * Epilogue
* Introduction: Imagining Premodern Inheritance * Part I. Fictions of the Will * 1: 'A Very Perfect Forme of a Will': The Fictional Testament * 2: Out of Bounds: Testamentary Fiction From The Tale of Gamelyn to As You Like It * Part II. Natural Philosophy * 3: Petrified Unrest: Succession and Descent in Lancastrian Verse * 4: The Home-Bred Enemy: Inheritance and Constancy in Tudor and Stuart Writing * Part III. World Histories * 5: Heavenly Inheritances * 6: The System of the World: Inheritance, Money, Modernity * Epilogue
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