William Worcester's treatise The Boke of Noblesse offers a unique record of military history and political thought in England in the fifteenth century. This new edition draws on the copious surviving records of Worcester's life, reading, and handwritten revisions, which give a unique insight into a medieval author and his work.
William Worcester's treatise The Boke of Noblesse offers a unique record of military history and political thought in England in the fifteenth century. This new edition draws on the copious surviving records of Worcester's life, reading, and handwritten revisions, which give a unique insight into a medieval author and his work.
Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory (Boydell, 2012) and Henry IV: The Afflicted King (Penguin, 2023). Daniel Wakelin is Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hilda's College. His publications include Humanism, Reading and English Literature 1430-1530 (OUP, 2007) and Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England (CUP, 2022).
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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1: Authorship 2: Manuscripts 3: The Circulation if The Boke of Noblesse and the Codicil 4: The Occasion and Date of The Boke of Noblesse 5: Worcester's Earlier Revision 6: Worcester's Final Revisions 7: The Revisions to the Codicil 8: The Sources 9: The Style 10: The Language 11: Textual Problems 12: Editorial Conventions Bibliography The Boke of Noblesse: Explanatory Notes English Texts from the Codicil: Explanatory Notes Appendices of Unprinted Material from the Codicil Glossary Index of Proper Nouns
List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1: Authorship 2: Manuscripts 3: The Circulation if The Boke of Noblesse and the Codicil 4: The Occasion and Date of The Boke of Noblesse 5: Worcester's Earlier Revision 6: Worcester's Final Revisions 7: The Revisions to the Codicil 8: The Sources 9: The Style 10: The Language 11: Textual Problems 12: Editorial Conventions Bibliography The Boke of Noblesse: Explanatory Notes English Texts from the Codicil: Explanatory Notes Appendices of Unprinted Material from the Codicil Glossary Index of Proper Nouns
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