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100 1 $aFederico, Sylvia,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe classicist writings of Thomas Walsingham :$b'worldly cares' at St Albans Abbey in the fourteenth century /$cSylvia Federico.
246 30 $a'Worldly cares' at St Albans Abbey in the fourteenth century
264 1 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk :$bYork Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press and with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York,$c2016.
300 $aviii, 207 pages :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aWriting history in the Middle Ages ;$x2057-0252
520 $a"The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected--which this book remedies. Following the texts, rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors' participation in a previously unrecognized discursive field that spans Latinate clerical prose and secular vernacular poetry, opening for reexamination the 'idea' of public literature in the late Middle Ages and recalibrating the terms of the conversation about the advent of humanistic textual practice in England. Providing a connected and comparative reading of Walsingham's works, alongside those of Chaucer, and taking both historical and literary approaches, the book extends our understanding of Chaucer through the exploration of his relationship to the clerical constituencies of London, Oxford, and monasteries in the South-East, and inserts Walsingham into the modern study of the reception of the Latin classics among the vernacular authors of his period"--Back cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : The Watlyng Street circuit and the field of classicist letters -- Portraits of princes in Liber benefactorum, Prohemia poetarum, and the "Monk's Tale" -- The textual environment of the Historia Alexandri magni principis -- Court politics and Italian letters in Ditis ditatus and Troilus and Criseyde -- Omnia vincit amor : passion in the chronicle -- Conclusion : The learned clerk and humanistic practice.
600 10 $aWalsingham, Thomas,$dactive 1360-1420$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$d-1400$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aLatin literature, Medieval and modern$zEngland$xHistory and criticism.
830 0 $aWriting history in the Middle Ages.
852 00 $bglx$hPA8595.W312$iZ643 2016