Imagining a Medieval English Nation

Author / Editor
Lavezzo, Kathy, ed.

Title
Imagining a Medieval English Nation

Published
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Physical Description
xxxiv, 353 pp.

Description
An introduction by the editor and ten essays by various authors consider the presence and nature of nationalism in medieval England. Medieval scholarly tradition and political structures anticipate the nation state and the nationalist discourses of modernity. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Imagining a Medieval English Nation under Alternative Title.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.