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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790740303321

Autore

Ruddick Andrea <1978->

Titolo

English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century / / Andrea Ruddick [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-70245-3

1-139-89043-3

1-316-64885-0

1-107-70355-7

1-139-04764-7

1-107-68788-8

1-107-59791-9

1-107-66500-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; ; 4th ser., 93

Disciplina

942.03/7

Soggetti

National characteristics, English - History - To 1500

National characteristics, English - Historiography

Nationalism - England - History - To 1500

Great Britain History 14th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society.



Using previously neglected official records as well as familiar literary sources, the book reassesses the role of the English language in fourteenth-century national sentiment and questions the traditional reliance on the English vernacular as an index of national feeling. Positioning national identity as central to our understanding of late medieval society, culture, religion and politics, the book represents a significant contribution not only to the political history of late medieval England, but also to the growing debate on the nature and origins of states, nations and nationalism in Europe.