Utter Antiquity: Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance England

by Arthur B. Ferguson

Book Overview

Historians know a great deal about how English thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the "documentable" past, but relatively little about how they perceived times stretching back beyond history. Arthur B. Ferguson shows in this elegant essay that prehistory had great meaning in Renaissance England. Commentators of various sorts--from poets to antiquaries--looked to the most distant past for the vanishing point that would perfect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822312751
• ISBN13: 9780822312758
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.