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An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.

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Barbarian Memory will be of interest to a variety of early-period scholars. It urges us to recognize the paradoxical and conflicted narrative of history and religion that emerges when we cast into relief the matter of the barbarian as part of a cultural tapestry extending from the late antique to the early modern period. Birns uncovers a barbarian uncanny that re-shapes literary readings at the levels of both character and form. - Seeta Chaganti, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA

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Nicholas Birns is Associate Teaching Professor at the New School, USA. He is the author of Understanding Anthony Powell and Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory From 1950 to the Early 21st Century, as well as the co-editor of A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book in 2008.

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