The later Middle Ages : a sourcebook /

"More than a hundred primary documents offer students of later medieval English literature, society, and history intriguing original perspectives through which to understand the literary texts of the period 1350-1500 as well as the culture which created and received them. Complete with a substa...

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Main Author: Collette, Carolyn P.
Other Authors: Garrett-Goodyear, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Palgrave sourcebooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Series Editor's Preface
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • The English Languages
  • Spiritual Affirmations, Aspirations and Anxieties
  • Violence and the Work of Chivalry
  • Uses of the Past: Authorizing the present and shaping the future
  • Scientia--Knowledge, practical and theoretical
  • Book Production, Audience and Reception
  • Producing and Exchanging: The world of manors and towns
  • Polity and Governance, Unity and Disunity
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index.