Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

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COURT POETRY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry ...

cambridge studies in medieval literature General editor Alastair Minnis,Yale University Editorial board Zygmunt G. Barański,Univ ...

COURT POETRY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND Allegories of Authority ANTONY J. HASLER ...

cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Ca ...

For Joan, Jack, Loie and Maud ...

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Contents Acknowledgements pageviii Abbreviations x Introduction 1 1 Beginnings: André’sVita Henrici Septimiand Dunbar’s aureate ...

Acknowledgements This book has come together over many years, but I am inclined to think of it as framed between two groups. At ...

dialogue has been possible. All of them inhabit a strange profession in a fashion I can only describe as exemplary. When parts o ...

Abbreviations BL British Library, London CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina EETS Early English Texts Society EHR English Hi ...

Introduction The woodcut on the cover of this book stands as frontispiece to the earliest surviving print of John Skelton’sThe B ...

my subject here: the forms of poetic identity generated in a cluster of works, in response to the multiple sources of authority^ ...

Several of the poems discussed here (Skelton’sBowge of Courte,Speke ParottandThe Garlande of Laurell, Dunbar’sThe Thrissill and ...

for the conscious control andfinalization of reality.”^17 In an aside–that most revealing of rhetorical gestures–they suggest th ...

embedding it in national-cultural difference and institutional location.^24 In contrast to the noble and especially the royal pa ...

dynasty. Some of the most compelling work on these poets’historical place– on Lydgate’s monastic allegiance, or Hoccleve’s burea ...

degree of detail with which this scene is repeated throughout thefifteenth century in England. The subject’s body, feeble or old ...

Premierfait, but integral to the poem. Similarly, John Shirley’s jokes about Lydgate’s poverty do not comment on the poet’s actu ...