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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784400403321

Titolo

Imagining a medieval English nation [[electronic resource] /] / Kathy Lavezzo, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8166-9245-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 37

Altri autori (Persone)

LavezzoKathy

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

National characteristics, English, in literature

Nationalism and literature - England - History - To 1500

Nationalism in literature

England In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Translating ""Communitas""The Captivity of Henry Chrystede: Froissart's Chroniques, Ireland, and Fourteenth-Century Nationalism; Afterword: The Brutus Prologue to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.