Early Modern Britain's Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota. Philip Robinson-Self. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018. x + 178 pp. $89.99

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 304 - 306
• Main Author: Connell, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Historians; Narratives; Renaissance period; United Kingdom > UK; Kalamazoo Michigan

[...]his very fictionality allowed for consideration of what the past meant and what it could be made to mean” (34). Robinson-Self analyzes several historians’ versions of the Albina narrative to show how dismissals of Albina, who provided a foil for Brute and a timely lens for examining female rule...