The Late Medieval Interlude - 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 Late Medieval Interlude write by Fiona S. Dunlop. This book was released on 2007. The Late Medieval Interlude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sensitive study of the 15/16 century interlude, focussing on one of its major concerns, the depiction of male aristocracy and the development to maturity. The commercial theatre of the late sixteenth century is often credited with introducing its audiences to new modes of thought about the self, society and the nation, making them conscious that the self is performed, as an actor performs a role. Yet the earlier interlude drama, originally performed in households and other institutions of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, indicates that the late medieval period was fully aware of the theatricalityof identity. This book argues that ideas of performance inform the concepts of aristocratic masculinity developed in the plays Nature, Fulgens and Lucres, The Worlde and the Chylde, The Interlude of Youth and Calisto and Melebea. It examines how the depiction of young male aristocrats in these texts is shaped by ideas of male youth constituted in the middle ages, and shows them as failing or succeeding to perform anadult noble masculinity in the aristocratic body and in aristocratic household. The book also suggests ways in which the plays offer discreet praise and censure of the manner in which their noble patrons performed as aristocrats.Throughout, it brings out the subtle qualities of the interludes, which, the author shows, have been unjustly neglected. Dr FIONA S. DUNLOP is Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England - 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 Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England write by Katherine Lewis. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, for a variety of purposes: to praise and eulogise but also to explain shortcomings and provide justification for deposition. Katherine J. Lewis examines discourses of masculinity in relation to contemporary understandings of the nature and acquisition of manhood in the period and considers the extent to which judgements of a king’s performance were informed by his ability to embody the right balance of manly qualities. This book’s primary concern is with how these two kings were presented, represented and perceived by those around them, but it also asks how far Henry V and Henry VI can be said to have understood the importance of personifying a particular brand of masculinity in their performance of kingship and of meeting the expectations of their subjects in this respect. It explores the extent to which their established reputations as inherently ‘manly’ and ‘unmanly’ kings were the product of their handling of political circumstances, but owed something to factors beyond their immediate control as well. Consideration is also given to Margaret of Anjou’s manipulation of ideologies of kingship and manhood in response to her husband’s incapacity, and the ramifications of this for perceptions of the relational gender identities which she and Henry VI embodied together. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England is an essential resource for students of gender and medieval history.
The Late Medieval English College and Its Context
The Late Medieval English College and Its Context - 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 Late Medieval English College and Its Context write by Clive Burgess. This book was released on 2008. The Late Medieval English College and Its Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide ranging survey of the medieval secular college and its context.
Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England
Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England - 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 Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England write by Margaret Connolly. This book was released on 2008. Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. The thirteen essays in this volume discuss aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late medieval England, focusing particularly on vernacular manuscripts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." "This binary focus on secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of production and dissemination, and considerably expands current knowledge of regional and metropolitan book production in the period before printing."--BOOK JACKET.
Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688
Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688 - 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 Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688 write by Matthew Ward. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.
