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"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.
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Politics and government, Historiography, Literature and history, History and criticism, Letter writing in literature, Politics and literature, Political poetry, English (Middle), Kings and rulers in literature, History, Political poetry, history and criticism, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Great britain, politics and government, 1066-1485Places
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Writing to the king: nation, kingship, and literature in England, 1250-1350
2010, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521111374 9780521111379
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