Fictions of Advice : : The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England / / Judith Ferster.
Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to--as well as attempts to manage--the risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to en...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Context for Literature: Public Discourse in the Late Middle Ages
- 3. The Secretum Secretorum and the Governance of Kings
- 4. The Secretum Secretorum in Ireland
- 5. Council, Counsel, and the Politics of Advice
- 6. Chaucer's Tale of Melibee: Advice to the King and Advice to the King's Advisers
- 7. O Political Gower
- 8. A Mirror for the Prince of Wales: Hoccleve's Regement of Princes
- 9. Machiavelli's Prince
- 10. Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index