..., less literary.5 Greenblatt’s equivocation about the genre of specious historical claims to the New World is shared by two early modern works that relate stories of the ancient conquest of America, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and John Dee’s Brytanici Imperii Limites. Just as Greenblatt...

...Blaire Zeiders This article posits the importance of John Dee’s Brytanici Imperii Limites in navigating the borders of credibility from the premodern to the post-truth era. While participating in the stated empiricism of early modern scholars like John Leland, Dee also drew upon the methodologies...