John Lydgate and the making of public culture
Maura Nolan
During the fifteenth century John Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an elite London readership that was historically very small, but that saw itself as dominating the cultural life of the nation. Thus the new literary forms and modes developed by Lydgate and his contemporaries helped shape the development of English public culture in the fifteenth century. Maura Nolan presents a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work and of his central role in the developing literary culture of his time.
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Jahr:
2005
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
290
ISBN 10:
0511128126
ISBN 13:
9780521852982
Serien:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature 58
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english, 2005