Author: City of London (England). CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Memorials of London and London Life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries
Author: City of London (England). CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Memorials of London and London Life in the XIIIth, XIVth, and IVth Centuries
Author: Henry Thomas RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Memorials of London and London Life in the Xiiith, Xivth, and Xvth Centuries ...
Author: Henry Thomas RileyMemorials of London and London Life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries
Author: City of London (England). CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England
Author: Anthony EmeryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139449199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.
Memorials of London and London Life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries
Author: Corporation of London (England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Memorials of London and London Life in the XIIIth, XIVth and XVth Centuries Being a Series of Extracts, Local, Social, and Political, from the Early Archives of the City of London, A.D. 1276-1419
Author: Henry Thomas RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Written Work
Author: Steven JusticePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Critics of Piers Plowman have often behaved as if the great fourteenth-century English poem were written by committee, Written Work marks a major shift in orientation by focusing on William Langland instead of Piers Plowman. The five original historicist studies collected here are less concerned with searching for Langland's identity in medieval records than with examining the marks, even scars, left on him by the history he touched. Derek Pearsall studies what Langland knew about London—its geography, economics, and social life—and the way his focus on the city shifted in the course of revising the poem. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton examines the conditions for authorship and publishing in late fourteenth-century England and uncovers evidence of Langland's struggles to attract patronage and maintain control over the text and circulation of Piers. Anne Middleton's stunning chapter explores how the long shadow of fourteenth-century labor laws fell across Langland as he reworked his text. Ralph Hanna III examines the conflicting demands of manual and intellectual labor on the poet, while Lawrence M. Clopper uncovers the deep impressions that contemporary controversies about Franciscan poverty made on Langland and his life-work. Each of the chapters unfolds from Langland's apologia, the extraordinary autobiographical passage unique to the last of the three distinct versions of Piers Plowman that have come down to us.
The Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion
Author: Alexander L. KaufmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Accounts of Jack Cade's 1450 Rebellion-an uprising of some 30,000 middle-class citizens, protesting Henry VI's policies, and resulting in hundreds of deaths as well as the leaders' execution-form the dominant entry in a group of quasi-historical documents referred to as the London chronicles of the Fifteenth Century. However, each chronicle is inherently different and highly subjective. In the first study of the primary documents related to the Cade Rebellion, Alexander L. Kaufman shows that the chroniclers produced multiple representations of the event rather than a single, unified narrative. Aided by contemporary theories of historiography and historical representation, Kaufman scrutinizes the differing representations and distinguishes the writers' objectiveness, their underrated literary skills, and their ideological positions on the rebellion and fifteenth-century politics. He demonstrates how the use of figurative language is related to writing about trauma, and how descriptions of Cade's procession through London are a violent parody of midsummer festivals. In an exploration of authenticity in the descriptions of Cade, Kaufman also examines the characterization and plot devices that push Cade towards the realm of myth, showing that representations of Cade are influenced by popular fifteenth-century stories of Robin Hood.
"The Sins of Madame Eglentyne", and Other Essays on Chaucer
Author: Richard RexPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135671
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The essays in this single-author collection are principally concerned with Madame Eglentyne, the demure and elegant prioress depicted in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Richard Rex contends that how we think about Chaucer as a Christian depends largely on our interpretation of the Prioress's Tale, which in turn is linked to the brilliant portrait of Madame Eglentyne in the General Prologue.