Hochon's arrow : the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts / Paul Strohm ; with an appendix by A.J. Prescott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strohm, Paul, 1938- author.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks.

Princeton paperbacks

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Social problems in literature.

England--Social conditions--1066-1485.

England.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Political and social views.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages).

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The paradox of the lie that might as well be true," writes Paul Strohm, "must interest anyone who seeks to understand texts in history or the historical influence of texts." In these seven essays, all recent and most published here for the first time, the author examines historical and literary texts from fourteenth-century England. He not only demonstrates the fictionality of narrative and documentary sources, but also argues that these fictions are themselves fully historical. Together the essays institute a dialogue between texts and events that restores historical documents and literary works to their larger environments. Strohm begins by inspecting legal records that accuse Hochon of Liverpool in 1384 of threatening to shoot an arrow at a political adversary urinating against a wall, and shows how the text embodies and interconnects language, social space, and historical interpretation itself. Throughout his analyses, which cover such topics as Chaucer's verses on the accession of Henry IV, Froissart's account of Queen Philippa interceding for the burghers of Calais, and Thomas Usk's accusations against John Northampton, Strohm alerts us to the distortions of textuality itself while challenging our notions of "invented" and "true."Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction: False Fables and Historical Truth

Chapter 1. Hochon's Arrow

Chapter 2. "A Revelle!": Chronicle Evidence and the Rebel Voice

Chapter 3. The Textual Environment of Chaucer's "Lak of Stedfastnesse"

Chapter 4. Saving the Appearances: Chaucer's "Purse" and the Fabrication of the Lancastrian Claim

Chapter 5. Queens as Intercessors

Chapter 6. Treason in the Household

Chapter 7. The Textual Vicissitudes of Usk's "Appeal"

Appendix 1: The Accusations Against Thomas Austin / Prescott, A. J.

Appendix 2: The Literature of Livery

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780691601861

0691601860

9780691631462

0691631468

9780691015019

0691015015

9781400863051

1400863058

OCLC:

889254797