The Idea of Englishness in the Fifteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
The Idea of Englishness in the Fifteenth Century
- Published
- Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 15-27.
- Description
- There was no growing sense of an English nation until the time of Henry VIII, although there were momentary surges in 1290-1340 and 1410-1420, the latter focused on Chaucer. Language is crucial to nation building, and the process of "accrediting English as a language of choice" in medieval England proceeded "slowly and fitfully."
- Alternative Title
- Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Language and Word Studies.