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John Lydgate is arguably the most significant poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer's literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to overshadow his contributions to English literature. Here, 'fame' is identified as the key to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning in Chaucer's wake. The author begins by situating Lydgatean fame within the literary, cultural and political landscape of late-medieval England, indicating how Lydgate diverges from Chaucer's treatment of the subject by constructing a more confident model of authorship, according to which poets are the natural makers and recipients of fame. She then discusses the ways in which Lydgate draws on fourteenth-century poetry, the advisory tradition, and the laureate ideology borne out of trecento Italy; she shows that he deploys them to play upon reader anxieties in his short poems on dangerous speech, while depicting poets as the ultimate arbiters of fame in his longer poems and dramatic works. Throughout, the book challenges standard critical positions on questions relating to how poets fit into late-medieval society, how they can be powerful enough to admonish princes, and how English letters fare next to the literature of the continent and of antiquity. Mary C. Flannery is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne.

Fame in literature. --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Lydgate, John, --- Lidgate, John --- Lydgate, John --- Lidgate, Iohn --- Monk of Bury --- Monke of Burie --- Monk of Bery --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem.

Time in literature. --- Lydgate, John, --- Hoccleve, Thomas, --- Occleve, Thomas, --- Hoccleue, Thomas, --- Lidgate, John --- Lydgate, John --- Lidgate, Iohn --- Monk of Bury --- Monke of Burie --- Monk of Bery --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing. This is war as political and economic practice - the continuation of politics by other means… A major contribution to the literary history of the fifteenth century.' Professor Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford. Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts; but their relationship has hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this book remedies, arguing that the connections are vital to the literary culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much wider scale. Beginning with a detailed consideration of the circulation of one of the most important military manuals in the Middle Ages, Vegetius' ‘De re militari’, it highlights the importance of considering the activities of a range of fifteenth-century readers and writers in relation to the wider contemporary military culture. It shows how England's wars in France and at home, and the wider rhetoric and military thinking those wars generated, not only shaped readers' responses to their texts but also gave rise to the production of one of the most elaborate, rich and under-recognised pieces of verse of the Wars of the Roses in the form of ‘Knyghthode and Bataile’. It also indicates how the structure, language and meaning of canonical texts, including those by Lydgate and Malory, were determined by the military culture of the period. Catherine Nall is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

English literature --- War in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Lydgate, John, --- Malory, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mėlori, Tomas, --- Lidgate, John --- Lydgate, John --- Lidgate, Iohn --- Monk of Bury --- Monke of Burie --- Monk of Bery --- Littérature et guerre --- Art et science militaires --- Grande-Bretagne --- 15e siècle --- Manuels d'enseignement --- Histoire et critique --- Annotating. --- Discourse Community. --- Fifteenth Century. --- Military Culture. --- Rewriting. --- Translating. --- War as Political and Economic Practice. --- Warfare.

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Shirley, John --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Handschriften [Engelse ] (Middel) --- Manuscripts [English ] (Middle) --- Manuscripts [Middle English ] --- Manuscrits anglais (Moyen) --- Middle English manuscripts --- 091 SHIRLEY, JAMES --- 091 <41> --- 091 =20 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--SHIRLEY, JAMES --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Books --- English poetry --- Literature publishing --- Literature, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Nobility --- Scribes --- Scriptoria --- Translators --- History --- Criticism, Textual. --- History. --- Translations into English --- Books and reading --- Biography. --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 SHIRLEY, JAMES Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--SHIRLEY, JAMES --- Manuscripts, English (Middle). --- Copying rooms --- Writing rooms --- Rooms --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Monasteries --- Monastic libraries --- Copyists --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- English literature --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Criticism, Textual --- Translations into English&delete& --- Books and reading&delete& --- Biography --- Reproduction --- Publishing --- Beauchamp, Richard de, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Lydgate, John, --- Shirley, John, --- Lidgate, John, --- Lidgate, Iohn, --- Monk of Bury, --- Monke of Burie, --- Monk of Bery, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Beauchamp, Richard, --- De Beauchamp, Richard, --- Warwick, Richard de Beauchamp, --- Friends and associates. --- Manuscripts. --- Great Britain --- England --- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 --- Scribes - Great Britain - Biography. --- Beauchamp, Richard de, - Earl of Warwick, - 1382-1439 - Friends and associates. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - d. 1400 - Manuscripts. --- Lydgate, John, - 1370?-1451? - Manuscripts. --- English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Criticism, Textual. --- Literature, Medieval - Translations into English - Criticism, Textual. --- Nobility - Books and reading - England - History. --- Literature publishing - England - History. --- Translators - Great Britain - Biography. --- Books - England - History - 1400-1600. --- Lidgate, John --- Lydgate, John --- Lidgate, Iohn --- Monk of Bury --- Monke of Burie --- Monk of Bery

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What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical tool for premodern writers, many of whom used it to explore what it meant to be an embodied creature or to ask whether human experience is independent of the natural world in which it is forged.The history of the late medieval period can be retold as the story of how nature gained an authoritative voice only to lose it again at the onset of modernity. This distinctive voice, Kellie Robertson argues, emerged from a novel historical confluence of physics and fiction-writing. Natural philosophers and poets shared a language for talking about physical inclination, the inherent desire to pursue the good that was found in all things living and nonliving. Moreover, both natural philosophers and poets believed that representing the visible world was a problem of morality rather than mere description. Based on readings of academic commentaries and scientific treatises as well as popular allegorical poetry, Nature Speaks contends that controversy over Aristotle's natural philosophy gave birth to a philosophical poetics that sought to understand the extent to which the human will was necessarily determined by the same forces that shaped the rest of the material world.Modern disciplinary divisions have largely discouraged shared imaginative responses to this problem among the contemporary sciences and humanities. Robertson demonstrates that this earlier worldview can offer an alternative model of human-nonhuman complementarity, one premised neither on compulsory human exceptionalism nor on the simple reduction of one category to the other. Most important, Nature Speaks assesses what is gained and what is lost when nature's voice goes silent.

Nature in literature. --- Poetry, Medieval --- English literature --- Philosophy of nature in literature. --- Literature and science --- Religion and science --- Nature in poetry --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Aristotle --- Jean, --- Guillaume, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Lydgate, John, --- Lidgate, John --- Lydgate, John --- Lidgate, Iohn --- Monk of Bury --- Monke of Burie --- Monk of Bery --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Deguileville, Guillaume de, --- Guillaume de Deguilleville, --- Guillelmo, --- Guillermo, --- William, --- Digulleville, Guillaume de, --- Guilleuila, Guillelmo de, --- Guillevila, Guillelmo de, --- Guilleville, Guillaume de, --- Gralleville, Guillermo de, --- Guillermus, --- Chopinel, Jean, --- Clopinel, Jean, --- De Meun, Jean, --- Jean Chopinel de Meun, --- Jean Clopinel de Meun, --- Jean de Meun, --- Jehan, --- Meun, Jean de, --- Clopinel, J. --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Aristotile --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Αριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- アリストテレス --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Science. --- Romaunt of the Rose.