Prophecy and public affairs in later medieval England /
In the first general survey of political prophecy in medieval England for almost a hundred years, Lesley Coote examines the nature of political prophecy, its audience and its reception, from its emergence in the twelfth century to the end of the middle ages. Working from original manuscripts, she re...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
York Medieval Press in association with Boydell Press
2000.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81r1m |
| Sumari: | In the first general survey of political prophecy in medieval England for almost a hundred years, Lesley Coote examines the nature of political prophecy, its audience and its reception, from its emergence in the twelfth century to the end of the middle ages. Working from original manuscripts, she reveals prophecy to have been a major language for the discussion of public affairs, enshrining ideas of 'Englishness' and a 'national' community, and introducing a great crusading hero-ruler, a second Arthur, who would lead his people into the Last Days. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index. "Handlist of manuscripts": pages 239-280 |
| ISBN: | 0585496773 9780585496771 9781846151392 1846151392 1903153034 9781903153031 |