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

Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250-1350

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

David Matthews

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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 r...

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