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The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: "Worldly Cares" at St. Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

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The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-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 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, the book extends understanding of Chaucer through the exploration of his relationship to the clerical constituencies of London, Oxford, and monasteries in the South-East, and thoroughly inserts Walsingham into the modern study of the reception of the Latin classics among the vernacular authors of his period.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3283218
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Year:
2016
Publisher:
York Medieval Press
Language:
English
Pages:
216
ISBN 10:
1903153638
ISBN 13:
9781903153635
ISBN:
1903153638,9781903153635
Series:
Writing History in the Middle Ages, 2

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