Cultural Genealogy: An Essay on Early Modern Myth

Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. Through examples ranging from Petrarch to Columbus, Maffeo Vegio to the Hapsburgs, Falco shows how the new techne of systematic genealogy facilitated the process of "remythicizing" the ancient authorities, utterly transforming Greek and Roman values and reforging them into the mold of contemporary needs.

Author: Raphael Falco
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/03/2016
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781472484765

About the Author

Raphael Falco is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and held the 2012-2013 Lipitz Professorship of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He is the author of Conceived Presences: Literary Genealogy in Renaissance England, Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy, and Charisma and Myth.