Chaucerian polity : absolutist lineages and associational forms in England and Italy /
Chaucer's encounters with the great Trecento authors - Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch - facilitate the testing and dismantling of time-honored terms such as medieval, Renaissance, and humanism. The author argues that no magic curtain separated "medieval" London and Westminster from &q...
Основен автор: | Wallace, David, 1954- |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
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Stanford, Calif :
Stanford University Press,
1997.
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Серия: |
Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
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Publisher description Table of contents |
Съдържание:
- Chaucer in Florence and Lombardy
- The General prologue and the anatomy of associational form
- "From every shires ende": English guilds and Chaucer's Compagnye
- "No felaweshipe": thesian polity
- Powers of the countryside
- Absent city
- "Deyntee to Chaffare": men of law, merchants, and the Constance story
- Household rhetoric: violence and eloquence in the Tale of Melibee
- After eloquence: Chaucer in the house of Apollo
- "Whan she translated was": humanism, tyranny, and the petrarchan academy
- All that fall: Chaucer's Monk and "Every myghty man"
- "If that thou live": legends and lives of good women.