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Author Kendall, Elliot Richard, 1974-

Title Lordship and literature : John Gower and the politics of the great household / Elliot Kendall
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages)
Series Oxford English monographs
Oxford English monographs.
Contents The great household and an economics of power -- The political economy in the late fourteenth century -- Service allegory: the great household in Geniuss confession -- Courtly love and the lordship of Venus -- Women as household exchange in Geniuss tales -- Justice and the affinity -- Retribution as household exchange in Geniuss tales -- Total reciprocity and the problem of kingship
Summary In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-291) and index
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Subject Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis
SUBJECT Confessio amantis (Gower, John) fast
Subject Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
Social networks in literature.
Social exchange in literature.
Social structure in literature.
Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History -- To 1500
Power (Social sciences) -- England -- History -- To 1500
Social structure -- England -- History -- To 1500
Households -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
Households -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
Aristocracy (Political science) in literature.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aristocracy (Political science) in literature
Aristocracy (Social class)
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
Households -- Economic aspects
Power (Social sciences)
Social exchange in literature
Social networks in literature
Social structure
Social structure in literature
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780191562198
019156219X
9780191715419
0191715417