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OverviewA comparative reading of the ""literary"" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events. 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. Sylvia Federico is Professor of English and member of the Classical and Medieval Studies Program at Bates College. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sylvia Federico (Customer)Publisher: York Medieval Press Imprint: York Medieval Press Volume: v. 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781903153635ISBN 10: 1903153638 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 19 May 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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'ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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