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Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350 by David Matthews (Hardcover, 2010)

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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 in this book, 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.

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Cambridge University Press
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9780521111379
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Book Title
Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350
Author
David Matthews
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
242 Pages

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235mm
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159mm
Item Weight
530g

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David Matthews
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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United Kingdom

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