Historians on John Gower

Rigby, Stephen (EDT); Echard, Sian (CON); Rigby, Stephen (CON); Fletcher, Christopher (CON); Carlin, Martha (CON)

ISBN 10: 1843847019 / ISBN 13: 9781843847014

Edité par D.S.Brewer, 2023

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• Titre: Historians on John Gower
• Éditeur: D.S.Brewer
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1843847019
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781843847014
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. Although addressed by both Chaucer and Langland, it is, above all, in the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement with contemporary events. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender (masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on newly-discovered primary sources.

À propos des auteurs

STEPHEN H. RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK.

MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After the Black Death. Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (2021).

James Davis is a reader in medieval history at Queen's University Belfast. He has published widely on the economic and social history of late medieval England, with a focus on markets, trade and small towns.

ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces.

MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool.