Judith Ferster

Fictions of Advice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780812233322
• ISBN-10: 0812233328
• Artikelnr.: 39596979

Autorenporträt

Judith Ferster is Professor Emerita of English at North Carolina State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
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