Legends

<p>regards to Dr. Dee’s exercises along this line, Peter Christensen describes it wonderfully <a href="http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/essays/christensen.html">in his scholarly essay</a> –

“Dee … his support of the <strong>Tudor political tactic of legitimation through recourse to Welsh legends, including so-called lost manuscripts that probably never existed but which were used by writers specifically to be present only through their absence.</strong> In Renaissance literary studies, Dee has been connected with the Welsh Elizabethan myth expanded by Edmund Spenser in <i>The Faerie Queene</i>. Furthermore, he knew Sir Philip Sidney and the circle of intellectuals around Elizabeth’s favorite, Robert Dudley.”</p>