The Common Voice in Theory and Practice in Late Fourteenth Century England.

Author / Editor
Galloway, Andrew.

Title
The Common Voice in Theory and Practice in Late Fourteenth Century England.

Published
In Richard W. Kaeuper, Paul Dingman, and Peter Sposato, eds. Law, Governance, and Justice: New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 243-86.

Description
Explores analogues to literary voice in late-medieval English political, legal, and Wycliffite discourses, and analyzes the “common voice” found in John’s Gower’s “Vox Clamantis” (“aged wisdom”) and in PF (“self-making” individual sovereignty). Also, comments on voice as theme and technique in works by Thomas Usk and William Langland, and suggests intertextualities of the common voices in various works, particularly Gower’s “Vox” and “Confessio Amantis” and Chaucer’s PF and KnT.

Contributor
Kaeuper, Richard W., ed.
Dingman, Paul, ed.
Sposato, Peter, ed.

Alternative Title
Law, Governance, and Justice: New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations