Introduction: New Lamps for Old?

Author: Pincombe, Mike¹

Source: The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, 1 July 2008 , pp. 1-16(16)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

The term `Tudor literature' is increasingly being used to denote a new period, but it has not yet become certain when this period begins or ends. This chapter argues that there are two ways of interpreting the term: a `long' Tudor period, which tracks the royal fortunes of the house of Tudor from 1485 to 1603; and a `short' period, from roughly 1530 to 1580, which might be designated `mid-Tudor literature'. This central period witnessed the catastrophic termination of medieval literature as a result of the Henrician Reformation and its immediate aftermath in the tumultuous decades of the mid-sixteenth century.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Newcastle University

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