Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II

Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II
Title Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 414
Release
Genre History
ISBN 9780271046761

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In this book the distinguished medievalist Lynn Staley turns her attention to one of the most dramatic periods in English history, the reign of Richard II, as seen through a range of texts including literary, political, chronicle, and pictorial. Richard II, who ruled from 1377 to 1399, succeeded to the throne as a child after the fifty-year reign of Edward III, and found himself beset throughout his reign by military, political, religious, economic, and social problems that would have tried even the most skilled of statesmen. At the same time, these years saw some of England's most gifted courtly writers, among them Chaucer and Gower, who were keenly attuned to the political machinations erupting around them. I n Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II Staley does not so much "read" literature through history as offer a way of "reading" history through its refractions in literature. In essence, the text both isolates and traces what is an actual search for a language of power during the reign of Richard II and scrutinizes the ways in which Chaucer and other courtly writers participated in these attempts to articulate the concept of princely power. As one who took it upon himself to comment on the various means by which history is made, Chaucer emerges from Staley's narrative as a poet without peer.

The Wheel of Language

The Wheel of Language
Title The Wheel of Language PDF eBook
Author David K. Coley
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Pages 274
Release 2012-05-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0815651678

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Analyzes the political, theological and social dimensions of speech as depicted in late medieval English lyric poetry.

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature
Title Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature PDF eBook
Author S. Lightsey
Publisher Springer
Pages 225
Release 2007-08-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230605648

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This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.

The Familiar Enemy

The Familiar Enemy
Title The Familiar Enemy PDF eBook
Author Ardis Butterfield
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 480
Release 2009-12-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191610305

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The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d'Arc and by Shakespeare's Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, 'Anglo-Norman', English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French 'jargon', including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d'Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what 'English' might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from 'French', and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower
Title The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower PDF eBook
Author Ana Saez-Hidalgo
Publisher Routledge
Pages 568
Release 2017-03-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317043022

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The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places: material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author, not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception. "Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on Gower’s trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.

The French of Medieval England

The French of Medieval England
Title The French of Medieval England PDF eBook
Author Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 362
Release 2017
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1843844591

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Recent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays here focus on linguistic adaptation and translation in this new multilingual England, where John Gower wrote in Latin while his contemporary Chaucer could break new ground in English.

The Riverside Chaucer

The Riverside Chaucer
Title The Riverside Chaucer PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher American Chemical Society
Pages 1386
Release 2008
Genre Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN 0199552096

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A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.