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Subject(s)

• Walsingham, Thomas active 1360-1420—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern—England—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Writing history in the Middle Ages [More in this series]
• Writing history in the Middle Ages ; 2057-0252 [More in this series]

Summary note

"The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected--which this book remedies. Following the texts, rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors' participation in a previously unrecognized discursive field that spans Latinate clerical prose and secular vernacular poetry, opening for reexamination the 'idea' of public literature in the late Middle Ages and recalibrating the terms of the conversation about the advent of humanistic textual practice in England. Providing a connected and comparative reading of Walsingham's works, alongside those of Chaucer, and taking both historical and literary approaches, the book extends our understanding of Chaucer through the exploration of his relationship to the clerical constituencies of London, Oxford, and monasteries in the South-East, and inserts Walsingham into the modern study of the reception of the Latin classics among the vernacular authors of his period"--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : 'The Watlyng Street circuit and the field of classicist letters'
• 'Portraits of princes in Liber benefactorum, Prohemia poetarum, and the "Monk's Tale"'
• 'The textual environment of the Historia Alexandri magni principis'
• 'Court politics and Italian letters in Ditis ditatus and Troilus and Criseyde'
• 'Omnia vincit amor : passion in the chronicle'
• Conclusion : 'The learned clerk and humanistic practice'.

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Other title(s)

'Worldly cares' at St Albans Abbey in the fourteenth century

ISBN

• 1903153638
• 9781903153635

OCLC

922919984

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