Reviews for Reading Death in Ancient Rome

The average rating for Reading Death in Ancient Rome based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-15 00:00:00 Rob Noble ISBN? - 9780521590013 General Subject/s? - History / Literature / Tudors Title? - Long-winded and misleading, as it looks as if it's a wide scope, but in fact it's very narrow. General Analysis? - I really struggled with this book. It's one I'm making use of for my Masters dissertation and I was intending to read the whole thing to get an overall view, but I couldn't get into it and ended up just looking at the sections I needed. The writing was dry and quite complicated and there seemed to be a lot of unneeded description. It could have looked more at the contextualisation of the literature and focused more on how it affected views at the time, as I felt this was somewhat lacking. Recommend? - No, there are better texts on the subject.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-17 00:00:00 Tristin Walerko Lehrer makes some interesting connections in this book as he explores the appropriation of medieval literary and 'courtly' conventions in the practice of letter writing in the early Tudor period. He's especially concerned with the figure of Chaucer's Pandarus, and the themes of voyeurism, self-fashioning and display which connect Chaucer's poem to the epistolary culture of the early sixteenth century. As with a lot of scholarly monographs there are points where the argument can get a little repetitive and slightly monolithic -but Lehrer's close readings are sophisticated and suggestive. Recommended for anyone working on textual culture in the late medieval/early Tudor period.