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Titolo: | Imagining a medieval English nation / / Kathy Lavezzo, editor |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/358 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
National characteristics, English, in literature | |
Nationalism and literature - England - History - To 1500 | |
Nationalism in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | England In literature |
Altri autori: | LavezzoKathy |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining a medieval English nation |
ISBN: | 0-8166-9245-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808433303321 |
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