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Author Turville-Petre, Thorlac

Title England the nation : language, literature, and national identity, 1290-1340 / Thorlac Turville-Petre
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Contents 1. The Nation -- 2. Church and People -- 3. The Story of England -- 4. Englishness in the Auchinleck Manuscript (Advocates 19.2.1) -- 5. Nation and Region -- 6. Three Languages
Summary England the Nation is the first book to pay detailed attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. Thorlac Turville-Petre surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Chaucer, and explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language
At the centre of Turville-Petre's work is a study of the construction of national identity that takes place in the histories written in English. The contribution of romances and saints' lives to an awareness of the nation's past are also considered, as in the questions of how writers were able to reconcile their sense of regional identity with commitment to the nation. A final chapter explores the interrelationship between England's three languages - Latin, French, and English - at a time when English was attaining the status of the national language, Middle English quotations are glossed or translated into modern English throughout. England the Nation takes the current debate on nationalism into a new area, and will be of interest to anyone studying medieval English literature and history, as well as the development of nationalism, and the rise of English as a national language
Analysis English literature History, 1066-1400
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-236) and index
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Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Nationalism -- England -- History -- To 1500
Language and culture -- England
Languages in contact -- England
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Historiography -- England -- History
Nationalism -- England -- History
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Literature
Civilization
English literature -- Middle English
Historiography
Language and culture
Language and languages
Languages in contact
National characteristics, English, in literature
Nationalism
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Nationaal bewustzijn.
18.05 English literature.
Nationalisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- 14e siècle.
Anglais -- Dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique.
Nationalisme et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 14e siècle.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Historiography
Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056723
England -- Literatures -- History and criticism
England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043274
England -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2019102629
Subject England
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne -- Langues.
Angleterre (GB) -- Civilisation -- 1066-1500.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191671548
0191671541