The image of the Black Prince in Georgian and Victorian England : negotiating the late Medieval past / Barbara Gribling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gribling, Barbara, author.

Contributor:

Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)

Series:

Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edward, Prince of Wales, 1330-1376--Influence.

Edward.

Edward, Prince of Wales, 1330-1376.

Medievalism--England--History--18th century.

Medievalism.

England.

History.

Medievalism--England--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 171 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Royal Historical Society ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

During the Georgian and Victorian periods, the fourteenth-century hero Edward the Black Prince became an object of cultural fascination and celebration; he and his battles played an important part in a wider reimagining of the British as a martial people, reinforced by an interest in chivalric character and a burgeoning nationalism. Drawing on a wealth of literature, histories, drama, art and material culture, this book explores the uses of Edward's image in debates about politics, character, war and empire, assessing the contradictory meanings ascribed to the late Middle Ages by groups ranging from royals to radicals. It makes a special claim for the importance of the fourteenth century as a time of heroic virtues, chivalric escapades, royal power and parliamentary development, adding to a growing literature on Georgian uses of the past by exposing an active royal and popular investment in the medieval. Disputing current assumptions that the Middle Ages represented a romanticized and unproblematic past, it shows how this investment was increasingly contested in the Victorian era.

Contents:

Part I Royal Use Of The Black Prince

1 Royal associations: heroic character and chivalric ceremony at the court of George III p. 23

2 Prince George reclaims the heroic? Transition, ambition and domesticity p. 38

3 Chivalry and politics in Victoria's early reign: art, exhibitions and palace renditions p. 52

Part II 'Popular' Uses Of The Medieval Past

4 Politics, parliament and the people's prince p. 75

5 Emulating Edward? Redefining chivalry and character p. 92

6 Warrior for nation and empire p. 115.

Notes:

"A Royal Historical Society publication"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-160) and index.

ISBN:

0861933427

9780861933426

OCLC:

1008849587