Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance

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What happened to the medieval romance genre during and after the Protestant Reformation in England Who read these works; who printed them; and what did they mean to the varied audiences encountering them Through a cross-temporal study using book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, this book argues that the medieval romances printed across the early modern period provided a flexible space for post-Reformation readers to negotiate their relationships with the recent medieval past, a past that was becoming, for some, increasingly distanced from the present. In exploring the complex entanglements of time and technology that accrue on the pages of the post-Reformation romance book, Difficult Pasts offers an interdisciplinary framework for better understanding the role of physical books and imaginative forms in grappling with a difficult past.

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Mimi Ensley is an Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College