Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England

Author / Editor
Ferster, Judith.

Title
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.