Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Giancarlo, Matthew.
Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England
- Published
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 289 pp. 8 b&w illus.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 64.
- Description
- Studies the intersection between the "growth of parliament" and the "development of poetry" from c.1376 to 1414, focusing on depictions of parliaments in literature. Poets such as Langland, Gower, and Chaucer had "extensive parliamentary connections," and their works represent "anxieties about voice, representation, and the vision of a cohesive community in a fractured world." Giancarlo examines parliamentary records and commentaries, complaint literature, Gower's "Mirour de l'Omme" and "Cronica Tripertita," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and works by Chaucer. PF is a "unique representation of parliamentary practice," GP and Mel reflect the language and technique of parliaments, and CT is structured in accord with the "mediational dynamics" of parliamentarism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Tale of Melibee