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Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
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Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271046761 |
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In this book the distinguished medievalist Lynn Staley turns her attention to one of the most dramatic periods in English history, the reign of Richard II, as seen through a range of texts including literary, political, chronicle, and pictorial. Richard II, who ruled from 1377 to 1399, succeeded to the throne as a child after the fifty-year reign of Edward III, and found himself beset throughout his reign by military, political, religious, economic, and social problems that would have tried even the most skilled of statesmen. At the same time, these years saw some of England's most gifted courtly writers, among them Chaucer and Gower, who were keenly attuned to the political machinations erupting around them. I n Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II Staley does not so much "read" literature through history as offer a way of "reading" history through its refractions in literature. In essence, the text both isolates and traces what is an actual search for a language of power during the reign of Richard II and scrutinizes the ways in which Chaucer and other courtly writers participated in these attempts to articulate the concept of princely power. As one who took it upon himself to comment on the various means by which history is made, Chaucer emerges from Staley's narrative as a poet without peer.
Author | : Samantha J. Rayner |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843841746 |
Download Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The concept of kingship was a major preoccupation for the Ricardian poets, as this full treatment shows.
Author | : Kristin M.S. Bezio |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1839106425 |
Download William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership examines problems, challenges, and crises in our contemporary world through the lens of William Shakespeare’s plays, one of the best-known, most admired, and often controversial authors of the last half-millennium.
Author | : David K. Coley |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-05-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0815651678 |
Download The Wheel of Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Analyzes the political, theological and social dimensions of speech as depicted in late medieval English lyric poetry.
Author | : S. Lightsey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230605648 |
Download Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.
Author | : Ardis Butterfield |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191610305 |
Download The Familiar Enemy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d'Arc and by Shakespeare's Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, 'Anglo-Norman', English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French 'jargon', including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d'Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what 'English' might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from 'French', and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : American Chemical Society |
Total Pages | : 1386 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
ISBN | : 0199552096 |
Download The Riverside Chaucer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Author | : Thelma S. Fenster |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1843844591 |
Download The French of Medieval England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England.
Author | : Chris Given-Wilson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300154194 |
Download Henry IV Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful place a king often overlooked in favor of his illustrious progeny. Henry faced the usual problems of usurpers: foreign wars, rebellions, and plots, as well as the ambitions and demands of the Lancastrian retainers who had helped him win the throne. By 1406 his rule was broadly established, and although he became ill shortly after this and never fully recovered, he retained ultimate power until his death. Using a wide variety of previously untapped archival materials, Chris Given-Wilson reveals a cultured, extravagant, and skeptical monarch who crushed opposition ruthlessly but never quite succeeded in satisfying the expectations of his own supporters.
Author | : Inchol Yoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English literature |
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