A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
Title | A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemarie McGerr |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253001986 |
This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript's unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader's perception of the work. Taking internal and external evidence into account, Rosemarie McGerr suggests that the manuscript was made for Prince Edward of Lancaster, transforming a legal reference work into a book of instruction in kingship, as well as a means of celebrating the Lancastrians' rightful claim to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses. A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes also explores the role played by the manuscript as a commentary on royal justice and grace for its later owners and offers modern readers a fascinating example of the long-lasting influence of medieval manuscripts on subsequent readers.
A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
Title | A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemarie McGerr |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253356415 |
The Yale New statutes manuscript and medieval English statute books : similarities and differences -- Royal portraits and royal arms : the iconography of the Yale New statutes manuscript -- The Queen and the Lancastrian cause : the Yale New statutes manuscript and Margaret of Anjou -- Educating the prince : the Yale New statutes manuscript and Lancastrian mirrors for princes -- "Grace be our guide" : the cultural significance of a medieval law book.
Mirror for Princes
Title | Mirror for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Tom De Haan |
Publisher | Random House (UK) |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780099581703 |
John Gower
Title | John Gower PDF eBook |
Author | Russell A. Peck |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843844745 |
New essays on aspects of Gower's poetry, viewed through the lens of the self and beyond.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Candace Barrington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2019-08-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107180783 |
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
Title | Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Baker |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2016-06-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110473372 |
The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.
Constitutions and the Classics
Title | Constitutions and the Classics PDF eBook |
Author | Denis James Galligan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 019871498X |
Focusing on major political and legal theorists whose work on constitutional theory had a significant impact, this book unearths an untold story of the development of constitutional thought in the context of the broader political environment.