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Treason and masculinity in medieval England : gender, law and political culture /
Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender. Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2020.
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| Collection: | Gender in the Middle Ages ;
v. 16. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- True men and traitors at the court of Richard II, 1386-88
- Tyranny, revenge and manly honour, 1397-98
- The Lancastrian succession and the masculine body politic
- From public speech to treasonous deed
- Civic manhood and political dissent
- Chivalry, homosociality and the English nation
- Conclusion.