The Governance Of Kings And Princes

Author : David C. Fowler,Charles F. Briggs,Paul G. Remley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317946588

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The Governance of Kings and Princes by David C. Fowler,Charles F. Briggs,Paul G. Remley Pdf

This is the first edition of the Middle English version of an influential treatise on governance entitled De Regimine Principum. The first volume contains a critical text of the Middle English prose and second will provide an introduction, textual notes and a glossary. Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome), an Augustinian friar and professor of theology at the University of Paris, composed the Latin treatise that underlies the Middle English text toward the end of the reign of the French king Philip III (1270-85). The work was addressed to the king’s son, who succeeded his father as Philip IV, know as "the Fair" (1285-1314). This edition first published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David C. Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1315861739

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The Governance of Kings and Princes by David C. Fowler Pdf

Author : Katherine Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134454532

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Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England by Katherine Lewis Pdf

Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, for a variety of purposes: to praise and eulogise but also to explain shortcomings and provide justification for deposition. Katherine J. Lewis examines discourses of masculinity in relation to contemporary understandings of the nature and acquisition of manhood in the period and considers the extent to which judgements of a king’s performance were informed by his ability to embody the right balance of manly qualities. This book’s primary concern is with how these two kings were presented, represented and perceived by those around them, but it also asks how far Henry V and Henry VI can be said to have understood the importance of personifying a particular brand of masculinity in their performance of kingship and of meeting the expectations of their subjects in this respect. It explores the extent to which their established reputations as inherently ‘manly’ and ‘unmanly’ kings were the product of their handling of political circumstances, but owed something to factors beyond their immediate control as well. Consideration is also given to Margaret of Anjou’s manipulation of ideologies of kingship and manhood in response to her husband’s incapacity, and the ramifications of this for perceptions of the relational gender identities which she and Henry VI embodied together. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England is an essential resource for students of gender and medieval history.

Author : Rudolf Suntrup,Jan R. Veenstra
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 3631556373

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Konstruktion der Gegenwart und Zukunft by Rudolf Suntrup,Jan R. Veenstra Pdf

Papers presented at two conferences with the theme Konstruktion von Gegenwart und Zukunft in der Freuhen Neuzeit in 2004.

Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203837

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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century by Karen A. Winstead Pdf

Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John Capgrave—Austin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East Anglian society, and noted author. Nowhere are the tensions and anxieties of this critical period, spanning the close of the medieval and the dawn of early modern eras, more eloquently conveyed than in Capgrave's works. John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century is the first book to explore the major themes of Capgrave's writings and to relate those themes to fifteenth-century political and cultural debates. Focusing on Capgrave's later works, especially those in English and addressed to lay audiences, it teases out thematic threads that are closely interwoven in Capgrave's Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism, gender, and social responsibility. It refutes the still-prevalent view of Capgrave as a religious and political reactionary and shows, rather, that he used traditional genres to promote his own independent viewpoint on some of the most pressing controversies of his day, including debates over vernacular theology, orthodoxy and dissent, lay (and particularly female) spirituality, and the state of the kingdom under Henry VI. The book situates Capgrave as a figure both in the vibrant literary culture of East Anglia and in European intellectual history. John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century offers a fresh view of orthodoxy and dissent in late medieval England and will interest students of hagiography, religious and cultural history, and Lancastrian politics and society.

Author : Stephen Rigby,Siân Echard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843845379

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Historians on John Gower by Stephen Rigby,Siân Echard Pdf

The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender (masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett, Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson, Stephen Rigby, Jens Röhrkasten.

Author : J. Allan Mitchell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452941578

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Becoming Human by J. Allan Mitchell Pdf

Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contributions to medieval scholarship on the body, family, and material culture, Becoming Human theorizes anew what might be called a medieval ecological imaginary. Mitchell examines a broad array of phenomenal objects—including medical diagrams, toy knights, tableware, conduct texts, dream visions, and scientific instruments—and in the process reanimates distinctly medieval ontologies. In addressing the emergence of the human in the later Middle Ages, Mitchell identifies areas where humanity remains at risk. In illuminating the past, he shines fresh light on our present.

Author : Jenny Adams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201048

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Power Play by Jenny Adams Pdf

The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.

Author : Kevin S. Whetter,Megan G. Leitch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846475

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Arthurian Literature XXXVIII by Kevin S. Whetter,Megan G. Leitch Pdf

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, followed by explorations of shame in Malory's Morte Darthur. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.

Author : Brian C. Lockey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139458573

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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature by Brian C. Lockey Pdf

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.

Author : Chris Given-Wilson,Ann J. Kettle,Len Scales
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833891

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War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles, C.1150-1500 by Chris Given-Wilson,Ann J. Kettle,Len Scales Pdf

Crown-magnate relations, the Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-French and Anglo-Irish wars, national and local finance and administration and the nature of late medieval kingship are among the principal themes explored in this volume, along with aristocratic consumption, historical writing, chivalric culture and a review of recent work on crusading history. All newly commissioned from distinguished scholars, they shed new light on late medieval British political, military and governmental history. CONTRIBUTORS: NICHOLAS VINCENT, DAVID CARPENTER, M. L. HOLFORD, ARCHIE DUNCAN, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, BJORN WEILER, ROBIN FRAME, ANDY KING, W. MARK ORMROD, G. L. HARRISS, NORMAN HOUSLEY, ANNE CURRY, MAURICE KEEN, WENDY CHILDS

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108606165

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Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes by Anonim Pdf

The 'mirror for princes' genre of literature offers advice to a ruler, or ruler-to-be, concerning the exercise of royal power and the wellbeing of the body politic. This anthology presents selections from the 'mirror literature' produced in the Islamic Early Middle Period (roughly the tenth to twelfth centuries CE), newly translated from the original Arabic and Persian, as well as a previously translated Turkish example. In these texts, authors advise on a host of political issues which remain compelling to our contemporary world: political legitimacy and the ruler's responsibilities, the limits of the ruler's power and the limits of the subjects' duty of obedience, the maintenance of social stability, causes of unrest, licit and illicit uses of force, the functions of governmental offices and the status and rights of diverse social groups. Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes is a unique introduction to this important body of literature, showing how these texts reflect and respond to the circumstances and conditions of their era, and of ours.

Author : John Fortescue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521589967

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Sir John Fortescue: On the Laws and Governance of England by John Fortescue Pdf

Two major works by the founder of English political thought made accessible to the student.

Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474406512

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Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran by Louise Marlow Pdf

Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and place.AGBPThe first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary.

Author : Katie L. Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426619

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Middle English Mouths by Katie L. Walter Pdf

First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.