The classicist writings of Thomas Walsingham : 'worldly cares' at St Albans Abbey in the fourteenth century
Federico, Sylvia2016
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The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late 14th century classicist letters in England and an overlooked major contemporary of Chaucer, has been somewhat neglected - which this book remedies. Following the texts, rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors' participation in a previously unrecognised 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.
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Author:
Federico, Sylvia, author
Imprint:
York : York Medieval Press, 2016.
Collation:
200 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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ISBN:
9781903153635 (hbk)
Dewey class:
820.9001LOC 820.9001820.9
Language:
English
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BRN:
1848457