The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587),
issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning
achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal
source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above
all, Shakespeare. While scholars have long been drawn to Holinshed
for its qualities as a source, they typically dismissed it as a
baggy collection of materials, lacking coherent form and analytical
insight. This condescending verdict has only recently given way to
an appreciation of the literary and historical qualities of these
chronicles.
The Handbook is a major interdisciplinary undertaking which gives
the lie to Holinshed's detractors, and provides original
interpretations of a book that has lacked sustained academic
scrutiny. Bringing together leading specialists in a variety of
fields - literature, history, religion, classics, bibliography, and
the history of the book - the Handbook demonstrates that the
Chronicles powerfully reflect the nature of Tudor thinking about
the past, about politics and society, and about the literary and
rhetorical means by which readers might be persuaded of the truth
of narrative. The volume shows how distinctive it was for one book
to chronicle the history of three nations of the British
archipelago.
The various sections of the Handbook analyze the making of the two
editions of the Chronicles; the relationship of the work to
medieval and early modern historiography; its formal properties,
genres and audience; attitudes to politics, religion, and society;
literary appropriations; and the parallel descriptions and
histories of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The result is a
seminal study that shows unequivocally the vitality and complexity
of the chronicle form in the late sixteenth century.
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