Parliament and political pamphleteering in fourteenth-century England /

First full examination of the phenomenon of the medieval political pamphlet. Some sixty years before the advent of the printing press, the first political pamphlets about parliament circulated in the city of London. Often vitriolic and satirical, these handwritten pamphlets reported on a trilogy of...

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Hlavní autor: Oliver, Clementine
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press 2010.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt14brrq8
Obsah:
  • Where do pamphlets come from?
  • The good parliament and the first political pamphlet
  • the making of a political pamphleteer
  • Reading and writing about the wonderful parliament
  • Conspiracy theories
  • From London's streets, 1388
  • The end of the Merciless Parliament
  • Appendix A : a comparison of the Historia mirabilis parliamenti and the parliament rolls.