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MEDIEVAL DIDACTIC LITERATURE POLITICS GOWER CHAUCER MIDDLE ENGLISH HOCCLEVE AGES

Description: Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval Englandby Judith FersterPublished by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. First Edition. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, notes & underlining to text. 8vo, index. 216 pages. Medieval Literature, Middle English, 10th to 15th centuries, Middle ages, English Literature, history, criticism, study, scholarship, Politics, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Didactic literature, history. Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king.Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition.In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies. Loc: A5StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackMEDIEVAL DIDACTIC LITERATURE POLITICS GOWER CHAUCER MIDDLE ENGLISH HOCCLEVE AGES Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval Englandby Judith FersterPublished by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. First Edition. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, notes & underlining to text. 8vo, index. 216 pages. Medieval Literature, Middle English, 10th to 15th centuries, Middle ages, English Literature, history, criticism, study, scholarship, Politics, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Didactic literature, history. Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king.Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition.In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies. Loc: A5

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Topic: Classic Literature, Criticism, General Politics, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature, Political History, Political Theory, Medieval Literature, Middle English, history, English Literature, 15th century, Didactic Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower

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