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English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century /

This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruddick, Andrea, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 93.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction I: Historiography
  • Introduction II: Context, sources and methodology
  • England as a territory
  • Defining the English people
  • Englishness: race, ethnicity and national character
  • King, kingdom and people: the idea of England in political rhetoric
  • Nationality, allegiance and subject-hood in the king's wider domains
  • God and England: ecclesiastical rhetoric and a political theory of nationhood.