The Textual Environment of Chaucer's 'Lak of Stedfastnesse'
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
The Textual Environment of Chaucer's 'Lak of Stedfastnesse'
- Published
- James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 129-48. Also in Paul Strohm. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts (Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 57-74.
- Description
- Sted reflects the same ideology as Richard II's contemporaneous program to disenfranchise the Lords Appellate. Both manipulate the assumption that sworn-oath, liveried affinities threaten social stability. Strohm delineates the political and social environment in which the poem was produced and read.
- Alternative Title
- Idea of Medieval Literature.
- Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts
- Chaucer Subjects
- Lak of Stedfastnesse.