Martial and chivalric symbolism in Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'
It is my thesis that Spenser uses the symbolism of combat, heraldry, and chivalry in The Faerie Queene on a scale and in ways not hitherto recognised in criticism of the poem. This symbolism, which I demonstrate was widely known and used in Renaissance England, is of classical, medieval, and Renaiss...
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University of Edinburgh
1981
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