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- Title
Saints and the Social Order: Alexander Barclay's The Life of St. George.
- Authors
Kopp, Maggie Gallup
- Abstract
This paper examines The Life of St. George, Alexander Barclay's 1515 translation of a humanist Latin prose poem. Barclay, who styled himself a laureate in the tradition of Lydgate, adapts laureate poetic practice in order to address a noble audience in a bid to gain court patronage. Barclay's emendations and additions transform the hagiography of England's patron saint into a commentary on traditional English ideals of citizenship and good governance, aimed at an audience comprised of both common citizens and noble elites, including, as this paper argues, the young king Henry VIII.
- Subjects
BARCLAY, Alexander; LIFE of St. George, The (Poem); LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); MEDIEVAL &; modern Latin prose poems; HENRY VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
- Publication
Quidditas, 2010, Vol 31, p102
- ISSN
1544-9971
- Publication type
Article