This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the
position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of
the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical
antiquity - played important roles in literature, scholarship and
art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their
centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of
Christ and the Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was
not limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained
a fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in
ancient Greek and Roman cultures, as well as the widespread
dissemination of prophecies attributed the sibyls that circulated
through the oral tradition. Sibylline prophecy of the Middle Ages
served as another conduit through which sibylline authority, fame,
and familiarity was transmitted and enhanced. Writers as disparate
as John Foxe, John Dee, Thomas Churchyard, John Fletcher, Thomas
Heywood, Jane Seager, John Lyly, An Collins, William Shakespeare,
and many draw upon this shared sibylline tradition to produce
particular and specific meanings in their writing. This book
explores the many identities, the many faces, of the prophetic
sibyls as they appear in the works of English Renaissance
writers.
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