Fictions of Advice - The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England

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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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Judith Ferster
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780812233322
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3332-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 19 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 497 g
• Illustrations: 2 illus
• Series: Middle Ages; The Middle Ages Series; Anniversary Collection
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies