{"product_id":"reading-holinsheds-chronicles-annabel-patterson-9780226649122","title":"Reading Holinshed's Chronicles","description":"\u003ci\u003eReading Holinshed's Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e-a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland-has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e was the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen, members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern censorship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature, \u003ci\u003eReading Holinshed's Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e brings into full view a long misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annabel Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226649121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226649122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 5.99w x 0.75d","brand":"Annabel Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47087452946687,"sku":"9780226649122","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9cfa6af-7329-49e9-83f7-fa169c150187.jpg?v=1753849933","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-holinsheds-chronicles-annabel-patterson-9780226649122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}