Аннотация:With the possible exception of the ubiquitous martyrologist John Foxe (volumes and essays on whom appear to be turning up at a dizzying rate), no Tudor historian or antiquary is currently hotter than John Stow. In addition to Barrett Beer's elegant recent monograph and a number of essays in various journals and edited volumes by London-focused scholars such as Ian Archer, we now have the present volume, the fruit of an earlier conference on Stow. Whereas most works have concentrated, not unreasonably, on Stow's contributions as an antiquary (notably his Survey of London, 1598), and as a chronicler (through numerous volumes of Annales, Chronicles and Summaries), the essays in this book deal with these subjects and much, much more. Although all the pieces are very brief by the standard of similar volumes, they have an individual and collective substance that makes the whole book a success. There...
