"138" Result
Sort By:
Thomas Hoccleve (d.1426) served four kings as a clerk of the Privy Seal. His poetry, partly written under Chaucer's influence, includes the Regiment of Princes on the nature of kingship and some delightful occasional pieces. This documentary life is based on several years' study…
In the middle ages romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons - to celebrate and justify war, chivalric ideaologies and to rationalize power structures. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre, explaining e…
Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.
This book addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason …
Romancing Treason examines English literature written during the Wars of the Roses. Focusing on the the theme of treason, Megan Leitch suggests that the idea of a literature of the Wars of the Roses offers a way of understanding an understudied period.
This book addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason …
"This book addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason…
'Romancing Treason' addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of its distinctive prose romances. Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason c.1437-97 suggests a way of conceptualizing the under…
This volume covers Chaucer's England, the age of Edward III and the Black Prince, but it was also the age of the rise of the new class of enterprising merchant-gentry of which Chaucer was a part.
