Imagining a medieval English nation / Kathy Lavezzo, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavezzo, Kathy.

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.

England--In literature.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9245-9

OCLC:

191932331