'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon,
drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of
memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate
surrounding the faculty had dated back to Plato at least. However,
responding to the powerful influences of an ever-expanding print
culture, humanist scholarship, the veneration for the cultural
achievements of antiquity, and sweeping political upheaval and
religious schism in Europe, succeeding generations of authors from
the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I engaged energetically
with the spiritual, political and erotic implications of
remembering. Treating the works of a host of different writers from
the Earl of Surrey, Katharine Parr and John Foxe, to William
Shakespeare, Mary Sidney, Ben Jonson and Francis Bacon, this study
explores how the question of memory was intimately linked to the
politics of faith, identity and intellectual renewal in Tudor and
early Stuart Britain.
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