Imagining a medieval English nation /
Examining a diverse array of texts--ranging from Latin and vernacular historiography to Ricardian poetry and chivalric treatises--this volume reveals the variety of forms "England" assumed when it was imagined in the medieval West.
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
[2004]
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| Serie: | Medieval cultures ;
v. 37. |
| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttxxk |
Sommario:
- Introduction; PART I. THEORIZING THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NATION; Pro Patria Mori; PART II. THE LANGUAGES OF ENGLAND; Latin England; "As Englishe is comoun langage to oure puple": The Lollards and Their Imagined "English" Community; PART III. CHAUCER'S ENGLAND; Chaucer Imagines England (in English); Hymeneal Alogic: Debating Political Community in The Parliament of Fowls; PART IV. LANGLAND'S ENGLAND; King, Commons, and Kind Wit: Langland's National Vision and the Rising of 1381; Piers Plowman and the National Noetic of Edward III; PART V. ENGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBORS.