Imagining a Medieval English Nation.

By: Lavezzo, KathyMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Medieval CulturesPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (391 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816692453Subject(s): England -- In literature | English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism | National characteristics, English, in literature | Nationalism and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Nationalism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining a Medieval English NationDDC classification: 820.9/358 LOC classification: PR275.N29 -- I43 2004ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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