TY  - GEN
T1  - Adam Usk's secret
T2  - Middle Ages series.
A1  - Justice, Steven, 1957-
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn903319794
AB  - Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an astonishing pace. Usk also wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of his own times, composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice that seems better designed to withhold vital facts than to recount them. His bold starts tumble into anticlimax; he interrupts what he starts to tell and omits what he might have told. Yet the kind of secrets a political man might find safer to keep--the schemes and violence of regime change--Usk tells openly. Steven Justice sets out to find what it was that Adam Usk wanted to hide. His search takes surprising turns through acts of political violence, persecution, censorship, and, ultimately, literary history. Adam Usk's narrow, eccentric literary genius calls into question some of the most casual and confident assumptions of literary criticism and historiography, making stale rhetorical habits seem new. Adam Usk's Secret concludes with a sharp challenge to historians over what they think they can know about literature--and to literary scholars over what they think they can know about history.
OP  - 211
CN  - DA235 .J87 2015
SN  - 1322877300
SN  - 9781322877303
SN  - 9780812291056
SN  - 0812291050
SN  - 9780812246933
SN  - 0812246934
KW  - Adam, : of Usk, : active 1400 : Writing skill.
KW  - Adam, : of Usk, : active 1400. : Chronicon Adae de Usk, A.D. 1377-1421.
KW  - Adam, : of Usk, : active 1400
KW  - Chronicon Adae de Usk, A.D. 1377-1421 (Adam, of Usk)
KW  - Written communication : England : History : To 1500.
KW  - Wales : History : 1063-1536 : Historiography.
KW  - Great Britain : History : House of Lancaster, 1399-1461 : Historiography.
KW  - Great Britain : History : Richard II, 1377-1399 : Historiography.
KW  - Pays de Galles : Histoire : 1063-1536 : Historiographie.
KW  - Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 1399-1461 (Maison de Lancastre) : Historiographie.
KW  - Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 1377-1399 (Richard II) : Historiographie.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Medieval.
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Written communication
KW  - England
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Wales
KW  - To 1536
KW  - History
ER  -