ABSTRACT
This chapter is a collection of essays written up from papers originally delivered at the second international conference of the Tudor Symposium, which took place at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in September 2000. The topic –'Anglo-continental literary relations in the sixteenth century' –was modestly millennial in intention: it was meant to provoke reflection on the new post-communist Europe as well as the United Kingdom's mixed feelings about closer political and economic links with the Continent. It was also designed to be especially inviting to speakers from outside the United Kingdom; and it is a pleasure to record that members of the conference included scholars who live or work in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia and Poland. The chapter testifies the work put in to the conference in 2000 by so many people by offering a synopsis of the papers given on that occasion.
