Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II write by . This book was released on . Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book the distinguished medievalist Lynn Staley turns her attention to one of the most dramatic periods in English history, the reign of Richard II, as seen through a range of texts including literary, political, chronicle, and pictorial. Richard II, who ruled from 1377 to 1399, succeeded to the throne as a child after the fifty-year reign of Edward III, and found himself beset throughout his reign by military, political, religious, economic, and social problems that would have tried even the most skilled of statesmen. At the same time, these years saw some of England's most gifted courtly writers, among them Chaucer and Gower, who were keenly attuned to the political machinations erupting around them. I n Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II Staley does not so much "read" literature through history as offer a way of "reading" history through its refractions in literature. In essence, the text both isolates and traces what is an actual search for a language of power during the reign of Richard II and scrutinizes the ways in which Chaucer and other courtly writers participated in these attempts to articulate the concept of princely power. As one who took it upon himself to comment on the various means by which history is made, Chaucer emerges from Staley's narrative as a poet without peer.
The Wheel of Language
The Wheel of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wheel of Language write by David K. Coley. This book was released on 2012-05-16. The Wheel of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes the political, theological and social dimensions of speech as depicted in late medieval English lyric poetry.
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature write by S. Lightsey. This book was released on 2007-08-06. Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.
The Familiar Enemy
The Familiar Enemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Familiar Enemy write by Ardis Butterfield. This book was released on 2009-12-10. The Familiar Enemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d'Arc and by Shakespeare's Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, 'Anglo-Norman', English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French 'jargon', including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d'Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what 'English' might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from 'French', and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower write by Ana Saez-Hidalgo. This book was released on 2017-03-31. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places: material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author, not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception. "Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on Gower’s trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.
