Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance.
- | Author: Mimi Ensley
- | Publisher: Manchester University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 248 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1526157896
- | ISBN-13: 9781526157898