Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians¿Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward¿reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.
Reassess medieval literature and the relationship between writers and power in England by arguing that major works commissioned by or written for a succession of Lancastrians¿Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Prince Edward¿reveal that John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and John Fortescue were not propagandists.
Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on literature from the fourteenth century to the Reformation, especially scribes, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; and law, travel, and politics in literature. He is the author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and The Sea and Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2008). His other books include Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (OUP, 2019), edited with Anthony Bale, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018), with John Scattergood, and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, edited with Candace Barrington. He edits the journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Inhaltsangabe
* The Indexical Self: An Introduction * 1: Ecce patet tensus: The Trentham Manuscript, In Praise of Peace, and John Gower's Autograph Hand * 2: The Series: Thomas Hoccleve's Year of Mourning * 3: Parting Shots: Richard Caudray's Libelle of Englyshe Polycye * 4: Lydgate's Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode * 5: The Signet Self: George Ashby's Autograph Writing * Afterword: Pragmatic Selves
* The Indexical Self: An Introduction * 1: Ecce patet tensus: The Trentham Manuscript, In Praise of Peace, and John Gower's Autograph Hand * 2: The Series: Thomas Hoccleve's Year of Mourning * 3: Parting Shots: Richard Caudray's Libelle of Englyshe Polycye * 4: Lydgate's Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode * 5: The Signet Self: George Ashby's Autograph Writing * Afterword: Pragmatic Selves
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