Imagining a medieval English nation / Kathy Lavezzo, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavezzo, Kathy.

JSTOR (Organization)

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 37.

Medieval cultures ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

National characteristics, English, in literature.

Nationalism and literature--England--History--To 1500.

Nationalism and literature.

Nationalism in literature.

History.

England--In literature.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 356 pages).

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

During the late Middle Ages, the increasing expansion of a central government, together with the greater involvement of the commons in national life, brought England closer than ever to political nationhood. Examining a diverse array of texts -- ranging from Latin and vernacular historiography to Lollard tracts, Ricardian poetry, and chivalric treatises -- this volume reveals the variety of forms "England" assumed when it was imagined in the medieval West. These essays disrupt conventional thinking about the relationship between premodernity and modernity, challenge preconceptions regarding the origins of the nation, and complicate theories about the workings of nationalism. This book is not only a collection of new readings of major canonical works by leading medievalists, it is among the first book-length analyses on the subject.

Contents:

Pro patria mori / L.O. Aranye Fradenburg

Latin England / Andrew Galloway

"As Englishe is commoun langage to oure puple" : The Lollards and their imagined "English" community / Jill C. Havens

Chaucer imagines England (in English) / Peggy A. Knapp

Hymeneal alogic : debating political community in The Parliament of fowls / Kathleen Davis

King, commons, and kind wit : Langland's national vision and the rising of 1381 / Larry Scanlon

Piers Plowman and the national noetic of Edward III / D. Vance Smith

Translating "communitas" / Lynn Staley

The captivity of Henry Chrystede : Froissart's Chroniques, Ireland, and fourteenth-century nationalism / Claire Sponsler

Afterword : The Brutus prologue to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Thorlac Turville-Petre.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

ISBN:

0816692459

9780816692453

Publisher Number:

99960037231

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