LEADER 03720nam 2200673 450 001 9910788055503321 005 20210427025052.0 010 $a0-8122-9105-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291056 035 $a(CKB)2670000000592471 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001442079 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11843272 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001442079 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11418467 035 $a(PQKB)11742661 035 $a(OCoLC)903319794 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42166 035 $a(DE-B1597)451275 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291056 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442474 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11015005 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL719012 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442474 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000592471 100 $a20150211h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAdam Usk's secret /$fSteven Justice 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-87730-0 311 0 $a0-8122-4693-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. The First Secret --$tChapter 2. The Story of William Clerk --$tChapter 3. Fear --$tChapter 4. Prophecy --$tChapter 5. Utility --$tChapter 6. Grief --$tChapter 7. Theory of History --$tChapter 8. Adam Usk?s Secret --$tConclusion --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAdam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an astonishing pace. Usk also wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of his own times, composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice that seems better designed to withhold vital facts than to recount them. His bold starts tumble into anticlimax; he interrupts what he starts to tell and omits what he might have told. Yet the kind of secrets a political man might find safer to keep?the schemes and violence of regime change?Usk tells openly. Steven Justice sets out to find what it was that Adam Usk wanted to hide. His search takes surprising turns through acts of political violence, persecution, censorship, and, ultimately, literary history. Adam Usk's narrow, eccentric literary genius calls into question some of the most casual and confident assumptions of literary criticism and historiography, making stale rhetorical habits seem new. Adam Usk's Secret concludes with a sharp challenge to historians over what they think they can know about literature?and to literary scholars over what they think they can know about history. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aWritten communication$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yRichard II, 1377-1399$xHistoriography 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aWritten communication$xHistory 676 $a942.03/8 700 $aJustice$b Steven$f1957-$01021320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788055503321 996 $aAdam Usk's secret$93771181 997 $aUNINA