Moderatus (Non-Canonical Early Modern Popular Texts)

Moderatus was an Elizabethan romance, probably the first published work of the sixteenth-century Welsh gentleman Robert Parry; it was produced in 1595 by the bookseller, publisher, and printer Richard Jones. In this volume John Simons offers in modern typography an edition of this now-scarce text, with explanatory notes and an extensive introduction that places the work in its historical context. He also presents what biographical information is known about the author of Moderatus and what is known of the book's publication history, and discusses such pertinent issues as the travel experience of Elizabethans, their knowledge of other languages than English, and their experience of translating and translations. Simons demonstrates how works like Moderatus do impel us to look more carefully at the inter-relationships of writers and readers and teach us a good deal about the habits of mind which those readers brought to more familiar texts.This edition of Moderatus is the inaugural volume of a new series of texts, which offers good reading editions of a range of early modern prose fiction.Robert Parry is the author of 'Moderatus (Non-Canonical Early Modern Popular Texts)' with ISBN 9780754601975 and ISBN 0754601978.