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- Title
Roman Exempla in the Early Tudor Period.
- Authors
Kern, Darcy
- Abstract
Roman exempla, or moralizing anecdotes, appear frequently in the English literature of the early Tudor period. Textual, authorial, and historical exempla offered a language people could use to counsel the king and their fellow Englishmen and women. As a teacher of individual virtue, Roman exempla remained fairly stable throughout the period, though translators themselves became more conscious of their role as counsellors and more visible in their texts through their prefatory material. As a political guide for England, Roman exempla became more problematic over the course of the early Tudor period. Authors increasingly discouraged kings and nobles from heeding popular counsel and encouraged them to rely more on printed Roman exempla and the translators who wrote them.
- Subjects
EXEMPLA in literature; ENGLISH literature; TUDOR Period, Great Britain, 1485-1603; ENGLISH didactic literature; ENGLISH poets
- Publication
English: The Journal of the English Association, 2019, Vol 68, Issue 261, p112
- ISSN
0013-8215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/english/efz020