TY - BOOK ID - 85466845 TI - The Elizabethan invention of anglo-saxon England : Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the study of old English PY - 2012 SN - 1281017167 9786613772466 184615958X 1843843188 PB - Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Law and literature. KW - Literature and law KW - Literature KW - History and criticism. KW - English language KW - Law and literature KW - Literature and society KW - History KW - Nowell, Laurence, KW - Lambarde, William, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Lambert, William, KW - Lambard, William, KW - Lambert, KW - Lambardus, Gulielmus, KW - Noel, Laurence, KW - Nowel, Laurence, KW - Early modern English language KW - Germanic languages KW - Elizabethan thinkers. KW - English history. KW - Old English law. KW - Tudor nationalism. KW - Tudor society. KW - early Anglo-Saxon studies. KW - ethnic identity. KW - medieval studies. KW - national past. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85466845 AB - Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past.' - Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of the Old English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national - even imperial - identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the 'ancient laws' that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history 'English.' Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University. ER -