Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Riot, Sodomy, and Minions: The Ambiguous Discourse of Sexual Transgression
- 2 From Goats to Ganymedes: The Development of Edward II’s Sexual Reputation
- 3 Edward II and Piers Gaveston: Brothers, Friends, Lovers
- 4 ‘Is it not strange that he is thus bewitch’d?’: Edward II’s Agency and Culpability
- 5 Edward II as Political Exemplum
- 6 ‘No escape now from a life full of suffering’: Edward II’s Sensational Fall
- 7 Beyond Sexual Mimesis: The Penetrative Murder of Edward II
- Conclusion: The Literary Transformation of History
- Appendix: Accounts of and allusions to Edward II’s reign, composed 1305–1697
- Index
Appendix: Accounts of and allusions to Edward II’s reign, composed 1305–1697
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Riot, Sodomy, and Minions: The Ambiguous Discourse of Sexual Transgression
- 2 From Goats to Ganymedes: The Development of Edward II’s Sexual Reputation
- 3 Edward II and Piers Gaveston: Brothers, Friends, Lovers
- 4 ‘Is it not strange that he is thus bewitch’d?’: Edward II’s Agency and Culpability
- 5 Edward II as Political Exemplum
- 6 ‘No escape now from a life full of suffering’: Edward II’s Sensational Fall
- 7 Beyond Sexual Mimesis: The Penetrative Murder of Edward II
- Conclusion: The Literary Transformation of History
- Appendix: Accounts of and allusions to Edward II’s reign, composed 1305–1697
- Index
Summary
Abstract
This appendix collates newly researched editorial detail for 130 accounts of, and allusions to, Edward II's reign written during the period 1305–1697 – representing the vast majority of texts addressing Edward II that were composed in England during this period. The table details each text's textual history; languages and available translations; sources; and significance for the study of Edward II's reputation. Since many Latin chronicles of Edward's reign were last printed in the nineteenth century, and manuscript material in particular has been subject to confusing nomenclature, this appendix provides a clear and up-to-date reference guide with which scholars can inform their reading of any of these texts.
Keywords: Chronicles, historiography, bibliography, manuscripts, textual history
Introduction
This table provides a short guide to the accounts of, and allusions to, Edward II's reign that were written in England during the period 1305–1697. (Texts written in France that exerted demonstrable influence on English texts are also included; as John Taylor has persuasively argued with reference to the fourteenth century in particular, ‘In a century when there was still a French dimension to English history, and when England was militarily and culturally involved with France, any account of English historical literature must take account also of narratives originating outside England itself’.) It details each account's textual history; its language and any translations; its relationship to other accounts, in terms of sources and texts that used it as a source; and its importance to the development of Edward II's reputation.
Texts are listed in alphabetical order of author; anonymous works are listed under ‘Anon’, in alphabetical order of title. Each text is listed under the title and author by which it is generally known to historians and literary critics; any alternative titles and authors are listed under ‘Textual history’. In the index, texts with known authors are listed under the author in the ‘Author’ column of this table; anonymous texts are listed under the title in the ‘Title’ column of this table.
References to numbers of early modern printed editions indicate only those printed during the period 1305–1697.
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- Reputation of Edward II, 1305–1697A Literary Transformation of History, pp. 287 - 342Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2020