Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Ferster, Judith.
Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
- Physical Description
- xii, 216 pp.
- Description
- Outlines the mixture of authorial deference and criticism within a mostly English mirror-for-princes tradition, from the "Secretum secretorum" to Machiavelli. Historicizes the works of James Yonge, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve within particular political contexts, assessing the ruler/counsellor agency established in each case. For a chapter that pertains to Chaucer, search for Fictions of Advice under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.