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LEADER: 02399nam a22003378a 4500
001 2009052530
003 DLC
005 20091228142535.0
008 091215s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009052530
020 $a9780521111379 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---$ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR317.P6$bM38 2010
082 00 $a821/.1093581$222
100 1 $aMatthews, David,$d1963-
245 10 $aWriting to the king :$bnation, kingship, and literature in England, 1250-1350 /$cDavid Matthews.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1004
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v77
520 $a"In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals to the sovereign increase with the development of parliament in the late thirteenth century and the emergence of the common petition, and become prominent, in an increasingly sophisticated literature, during the political crises of the early fourteenth century. However, very little of this writing was truly directed to the king. As David Matthews shows, the form of address was a rhetorical stance revealing much about the position from which writers were composing, the audiences they wished to reach, and their construction of political and national subjects"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction: writing to the King; 1. Defending Anglia; 2. Attacking Scotland: Edward I and the 1290s; 3. Regime change; 4. The destruction of England: crisis and complaint c.1300-41; 5. Love letters to Edward III; Envoy.
650 0 $aPolitical poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aLetter writing in literature.
650 0 $aKings and rulers in literature.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1066-1485$xHistoriography.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/11379/cover/9780521111379.jpg