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Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism (2020)
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Mottram, S. (2020). Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism. In A. Walsham, B. Wallace, C. Law, & B. Cummings (Eds.), Memory and the English Reformation (223-237). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900157.015

With a focus on Edmund Spenser, this chapter explores representations of ruined monasteries within (New) English protestant writing of c.1590-1642. Monastic ruins are visible mnemonics of British-Irish reformation, and Protestants express surprisingl... Read More about Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism.