Lordship and Literature Marcel Danesi Jonathan Bennett and Kenneth P

Jonathan Bennett and Kenneth P

While the traditional philosophy of the schools was taught throughout this period by authors who have faded into permanent obscurity

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Oxford is pleased to make available an abridgement of this parent volume: A Rage for Order preserves all the theme lines that were advanced in the original volume and many of the individual

Lordship and Literature Marcel Danesi Jonathan Bennett and Kenneth PA ground breaking approach to the politics of late medieval texts, Lordship and Literature investigates the importance of the great household to late fourteenth century English culture and society. A sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis, shows how deeply the great household informed the way Gower and his contemporaries imagined their world. Exploring royal government and gentry ambitions, this thoroughly