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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lavezzo, Kathy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]
Colección:Medieval cultures ; v. 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.