This is a must read for students and scholars of English literature.

A wide-ranging survey of the brief revival of religious art, architecture, music, and literature during the Counter-Reformation.

The Trophies of Time offers the first comprehensive review of the heroic phase of antiquarian studies, when history was being disengaged from fable, and the modern sense of the remote past was being securely established.

This book explores the methods by which a distinctive iconography was created for each Stuart king, describes the cultural life of the Civil War period and the Cromwellian Protectorate, and analyses the impact of the antiquarian movement ...