John Leland and the Contents of English pre-Dissolution Libraries : Glastonbury Abbey

Carley, James P.

doi:10.3406/scrip.1986.1433

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“…Leland and Bale were contemporaries and when Leland died in 1552, Bale campaigned for the preservation of his papers. 54 John Bale was the first of very many historians and antiquaries to acknowledge the debt he owed to John Leland. Likewise, Bale's own papers joined the ranks of the major libraries and the "antiquarian learning contained within his comprehensive bibliographies continues to influence scholars."…”

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Collaborative Scholarship on the Margins: An Epistolary Network

Hannan¹

2014

Women's Writing

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Section: George Ballard's Legacymentioning

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Collaborative Scholarship on the Margins: An Epistolary Network

Hannan¹

2014

Women's Writing

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Leland,John

Bevill

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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John Leland was the founder of early modern antiquarian studies in England. Despite his incapacitating mental illness late in life, he nevertheless crafted an impressive legacy of historical writing based on his extensive travels throughout the British Isles. His most notable works include De viris illustribus , a dictionary of literary biography of British writers from antiquity to his present day, Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae , a defense of the historical King Arthur, and The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary , a collection of notebooks detailing his research during his multiple journeys across Britain. He is, in many cases, the only source of documentation for library collections before and during the dissolution of the monasteries.

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‘King Arthur’ and Cadbury Castle, Somerset

Evans¹

2006

Antiq. J.

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The major excavations at Cadbury Castle, Somerset, which took place in the 1960s, owed their inspiration in part to the identification of the site as ‘Camelot’, thus forging an association with ‘King Arthur’. John Leland, the sixteenth-century antiquary, was the author of this identification and this paper considers how he might have arrived at this conclusion. Factors identified include the role in Tudor politics of ‘King Arthur’ and of the owners of the site – the Hastings family. Consideration of the evidence of later writers on the site, both national and local, shows their almost total dependence on Leland's original description, but the evidence of the Hereford Mappa Mundi suggests a new dimension. It is suggested that the interpretation of the archaeology of the site would benefit from a clearer understanding of John Leland's description and of Tudor and Stuart activity at the site.

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John Leland and the Contents of English pre-Dissolution Libraries : Glastonbury Abbey

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Collaborative Scholarship on the Margins: An Epistolary Network

Leland,John

‘King Arthur’ and Cadbury Castle, Somerset

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