Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England

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OUP Oxford, 2001 M12 6 - 238 pages
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
 

Contents

Pearl or The Jewellers Tale
40
Gowers Cronica Tripertita
63
The Regal Image of Richard II and the Prologue to
80
The 1381 Uprisings
106
Wycliffite Representations
128
Unscrambling Mum and the Sothsegger
158
Works Cited
199
Index
221
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