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Adam Usk's Secret (Hardcover)
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Adam Usk's Secret (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years
of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns,
a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy.
He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence,
switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an
astonishing pace. Usk also wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of
his own times, composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice
that seems better designed to withhold vital facts than to recount
them. His bold starts tumble into anticlimax; he interrupts what he
starts to tell and omits what he might have told. Yet the kind of
secrets a political man might find safer to keep-the schemes and
violence of regime change-Usk tells openly. Steven Justice sets out
to find what it was that Adam Usk wanted to hide. His search takes
surprising turns through acts of political violence, persecution,
censorship, and, ultimately, literary history. Adam Usk's narrow,
eccentric literary genius calls into question some of the most
casual and confident assumptions of literary criticism and
historiography, making stale rhetorical habits seem new. Adam Usk's
Secret concludes with a sharp challenge to historians over what
they think they can know about literature-and to literary scholars
over what they think they can know about history.
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