...Amanda Taylor The sixteenth century witnessed the publication of landmark texts on anatomy and allegory: De humani corporis fabrica or On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius in 1543 and The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, published first in 1590. Each of these texts has received...

...James Holstun Duke University Press 2007 a The Giant’s Faction: Spenser, Heywood, and the Mid-Tudor Crisis James Holstun...

... in Spenser’s Faerie Queene John D. Staines Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Even in this era of literary historicism, Spenser’s Legend of Justice remains...

...Thomas A. Prendergast © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a Spenser’s Phantastic History, The Ruines of Time, and the Invention of Medievalism...

...Hannah Crawforth This essay pays long overdue attention to E.K's glosses of native English words in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579). Spenser's practice of using native English words is indebted to the emerging discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, especially to the methodology...

...Sarah Hogan Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland is one of the most notorious works in the imperial archive, yet its fantasy of annihilating reform, or what might now be called “creative destruction,” schemes a highly specific kind of colonial project driven by novel kinds...

...Roland Greene This essay analyzes the figures of language and of landscape that allow Edmund Spenser to consider in an international context the virtue at the center of Book V of The Faerie Queene , justice. How, he asks, is justice projected from one society into another in an act of empire...

... altered by the dissolution: prayer, otium , and withdrawal. As Tudor society sought to reshape or relocate these elements, writers including Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare explored and appropriated them, crafting within their literary texts a place for the monastic impulse. Writers of the period...

... Ralegh's Discovery of Guiana , Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene , and Philip Massinger's The Renegado . Such works either directly or indirectly comment on the Anglo-Spanish rivalry, and together they amount to an incremental critique of Queen Elizabeth's defining place within the late-sixteenth-century...

... the form of paintings, such as Pieter Saenredam’s St. Bavokerk with Fictive Bishop’s Tomb , or of poems recollecting vanished monuments, such as Shakespeare’s sonnets, Drayton’s Poly-Olbion , and Spenser’s Ruines of Time . A clutch of early seventeenth-century poetic memorials to lost tombs and shrines...

..., 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...

... Studies / 31.2 / 2001 JMEMS31.2-04 Netzloff 4/30/01 9:36 AM Page 315 tation effort in early modern Ireland, the Munster plantation, Ulster also lacked a resident poet like Edmund Spenser to both commemorate it and urge its reform.12 This lack of a canon...

... physiology and literature, Amanda Taylor connects Vesalius to book II of The Faerie Queene, where Edmund Spenser allegorizes the body in relation to the issue of temperance. By the time he first published this epic romance in 1590, the enthusiasm for anatomical knowledge that Vesalius had spearheaded...

... the earliest foreshock of later sixteenth- and seventeenth- century writers such as Sidney, Spenser, and Jonson, and so by implication the ideal figure through whom to date the beginning of Tudor (and thus the end of medieval) poetic subjectivity. Crucially, this concern with the construction...

... what 2  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 is inside and outside of a society), more favored by English colonial pursuits, and the via (a passage or way that connects societies) more favored by the Spanish. Greene provides a reading of Spenser’s text that makes visible...

..., Winter 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1473145  © 2012 by Duke University Press phy but in the poetic representation of virtue in image and example. He is drawn, not surprisingly, to his great epic predecessor, Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queene is among other things an anatomy of virtues...

.... The Bowge of Court and the Afterlives of Allegory  369 – 91 Crawforth, Hannah Strangers to the Mother Tongue: Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and Early Anglo-­Saxon Studies  293 – 316 Dailey, Patricia Children of Promise: The Bodies of Hadewijch of Brabant  317 – 43 Journal...

... “So short a space of time”: Early Modern Convent Chronology and Carmelite Spirituality  539 – 566 Herdt, Jennifer A. Virtue, Identity, and Agency  1 – 12 Hogan, Sarah Utopia, Ireland, and the Tudor Shock Doctrine: Spenser’s Vision of Capitalist Imperialism  461 – 486 Irwin, Terence...

... resembles E.K.’s critique in the dedicatory epistle to Spenser’s Shepheardes Calendar (1579). The “author” complains of the bas- tardization of the English language by the incorporation of foreign words and phrases: [O]ur mother tonge, which truly of itself is both ful enough for prose...

... celebrated romance . . . but completely modernized the whole. 42 The overwhelming canonization of Shakespeare can make it difficult to measure accurately the reputation of his contemporaries in this period, yet if Sidney (like Spenser, with whom he is often mentioned in the same breath) Simonova / Philip...