Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain: An Image of Truth

ISBN-13: 9780198816720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Martha Vandrei

Opis

In this unique new study, Martha Vandrei examines how the ancient story of Queen Boudica has been represented throughout history, from Tacitus to the twentieth century, shedding light on the way the British public engages with the past.

Recenzje

Vandrei's impressively wide research into the evolving, fractured, and often contradictory expressions of British historical culture takes in written histories, poetry, stage plays, historical fiction and pageants; emotion, religion, nationalism, and politics; notions of femininity; imagined portraits of Boudica, from the woodcut in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) to Thomas Thornycroft's bronze statue of her on Westminster Bridge; fittingly named ships in the Royal Navy; and a 1929 film. The text is supported by illustrations, footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index.

O autorze

Martha Vandrei is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter. This is her first book.