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Writing to the King - Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350 (Paperback)
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Writing to the King - Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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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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