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Author Petrina, Alessandra

Title Cultural politics in fifteenth-century England : the case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester / by Alessandra Petrina
Published Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 124
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 124. 0920-8607
Contents Introduction: A definition of humanism in early fifteenth-century England -- Ch. 1. Roberto Weiss's inheritance and the current state of studies -- Ch. 2. The beginning of humanism in England -- Ch. 3. A sense of history: Duke Humphrey living and writing his own times -- Ch. 4. "Thair librair vniuersal": Collecting and donating books -- Ch. 5. Curiosity and erudite humanism: Duke Humphrey as a patron of letters
Summary "This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focuses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI's minority, Humphrey's intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke's own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey's commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists
Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey's donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation's cultural autonomy."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-374) and index
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Subject Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447.
SUBJECT Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447 fast
Humphrey (Gloucester, Herzog) swd
Subject Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- To 1500
Book collecting -- England -- History -- To 1500
Literary patrons -- Great Britain -- Biography
Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography
Humanists -- England
HISTORY.
Authors and patrons
Book collecting
Humanists
Intellectual life
Literary patrons
Nobility
Politics and government
Kulturpolitik
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Biography
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1399-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056880
England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043300
Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056765
Subject England
Great Britain
England
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1429414766
9781429414760
9789004137134
9004137130
9789047404903
9047404904
1280914882
9781280914881
9786610914883
6610914885