The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: "Worldly Cares" at St. Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century.
- Author / Editor
- Federico, Sylvia.
The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: "Worldly Cares" at St. Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2016.
- Physical Description
- viii, 207 pp.; 7 b&w illus.
- Description
- Studies the works of Thomas Walsingham for their importance in the field of late fourteenth-century English "public classical literature," helping to define this field by focusing on nuances in Walsingham's treatments of political events in classicized terms, imagery, and allusions, compared with treatments by contemporaneous writers, especially Chaucer. Includes discussion of Chaucer's Monk and his tale as an ironic commentary on Walsingham, revisions of previously published discussions of MLT and TC in relation to Walsingham's writing, explorations of the political vocabularies of Anglo-Latin and vernacular writings of the time, and a description of differences between "classisizing" literature and humanism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Monk and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde