Writing to the king nation, kingship, and literature in England, 1250-1350
In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Defending Anglia
- Attacking Scotland : Edward I and the 1290s
- Regime change
- The destruction of England : crisis and complaint c.1300-41
- Love letters to Edward III
- Envoy
- Appendix. The tail-rhyme poems of Langtoft's chronicle