The matter of kings' lives : : the design of past and present in the early fourteenth-century verse chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng / / Thea Summerfield.
The rhymed chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng, written between c.1305 and 1338, form a unique pair in the history of English literature and historiography. Both were written in the North of England, both deal with the history of the kings of England from Brutus to the death of Edwar...
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| Superior document: | Costerus ; Volume 113 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 113. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (335 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Abbreviations used in text and bibliography
- A note on the reference system used in this book
- I Introduction
- II An Introduction to Pierre de Langtoft and his Chronicle
- III Escotez la Defaute: A Reading of Langtoft's Chronicle
- IV Politics and Personalities: The Purpose of Pierre de Langtoft's Chronicle
- V Politics and the English People in the Early Fourteenth Century
- VI An Introduction to Robert Mannyng and his Chronicle
- VII Als þei þaid, ban say I: A Reading of Robert Mannyng's Chronicle
- VIII I trauayled for 3our solace: anxiety and reassurance in Robert Mannyng's Chronicle
- IX Epilogue
- Appendix I: A List of Langtoft MSS
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.