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Article Dans Une Revue The Spenser Review Année : 2022

Mitring Persia in The Faerie Queene

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Religious assessments of Persia in the late sixteenth century undergo continuous revisions over short intervals and sometimes even from one author to another, as is the case in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and its exact contemporary 2 Tamburlaine. The former casts Persia as mitre-wearing and Catholic, while the latter shows a Persianate army commander snatching the mitre off a catholicized adversary’s head. By turns classical and topical, the Persian mitre in its many iterations proves a symbol of spiritual and temporal power changing hands as conveniently as a stage prop, in fictions making the prospect of a Persian rapprochement possible, but circumstantial.
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hal-04009919 , version 1 (01-03-2023)

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Ladan Niayesh. Mitring Persia in The Faerie Queene. The Spenser Review, 2022, 52 (3.4). ⟨hal-04009919⟩
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