Description: Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction: The Kingdom of Our Own Language 1: Two Versions of Gothic Barbarous Tongues The Politics of Chivalric Romance A Miltonic Revision 2: Writing the Law Plans for an English Corpus Juris Reporting the Unwritten Law The Form of Coke's Institutes Uncouth Learning and Professional Pride 3: The Land Speaks Maps and the Signs of Authority From Court to Country The Ideology of Place and Particularity The Muse on Progress Chorography and Whiggery 4: The Voyages of a Nation Class, Nation, and Camoes Commodity and Vent Merchants, Gentlemen, and Their Genres Spain's Tyrannical Ambition Posthumous Writings and Rewritings 5: Staging Exclusion Popular Revolt Carnival and Clowns Losing the Common Touch Purged from Barbarism 6: Apocalyptics and Apologetics Antichrist and the Suffering Elect Defending the Ecclesiastical Polity In the Body of the Beast Afterword: Engendering the Nation-State Notes Index

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