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CHAUCERIAN POLITY
ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY |
| By: |
David Wallace |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804736618 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804736619 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 April, 1999 |
| Series: |
Figurae: Reading Mediaeval Culture S. |
| Pages: |
578 |
| Description: |
This study of Chaucer's poetry and prose intends to provide a new articulation of "Chaucerian polity" through analyses of art, architecture, and literary texts. |
| Synopsis: |
Chaucer's encounters with the great Trecento authors Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch facilitate the testing and dismantling of time-honored terms such as medieval, Renaissance, and humanism. The author argues that no magic curtain separated medieval London and Westminster from Renaissance Florence and Milan; as a result of his Italian journeys, all sites were interlinked for Chaucer as parts of a transnational nexus of capital, cultural, mercantile, and military exchange. In his travels, Chaucer was exposed to the Trecento's most crucial material and ideological conflict, that between a fully developed and highly inclusive associational polity (Florence) and the first, prototypically imperfect, absolutist state of modern times (Lombardy). Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the author proposes, explores both the establishment and maintenance of generously inclusive associational forms (the pilgrim compagnye) and the dangers of despotism (most famously exemplified by tyraunts of Lombardye). The Tales thus speaks to political tensions experienced in Ricardian, or fourteenth-century, England that find resolution only in the sixteenth century. |
| Illustrations: |
18 half-tones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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