Ratgeber des Konigs : Furstenspiegel und Herrscherideal im spatmittelalterlichen England
- Author / Editor
- Grassnick, Ulrike.
Ratgeber des Konigs : Furstenspiegel und Herrscherideal im spatmittelalterlichen England
- Published
- Koln, Wien, Weimar: Bohlau, 2004.
- Physical Description
- xii, 471 pp.
- Series
- Europaische Kulturstudien, no. 15.
- Description
- A New Historicist assessment of Middle English mirrors for princes: Chaucer's Mel and works by Trevisa, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Burgh, Hays, Ashby, and Gower. These texts construct an ideal king and normative social values and-set against the reign and deposition of Richard II-disclose much about contemporary society.
- Grassnick explores topics such as counsel, virtue, and strategies of transmission and includes an appendix that lists owners of mirrors for princes in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.