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By David Matthews

ISBN-10: 0521111374

ISBN-13: 9780521111379

ISBN-10: 1107412544

ISBN-13: 9781107412545

within the century sooner than Chaucer a brand new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the interval, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and heart English, poets write as though addressing the king himself, drawing on their feel of the rights granted by way of Magna Carta. those obvious appeals to the sovereign raise with the advance of parliament within the past due 13th century and the emergence of the typical petition, and turn into admired, in an more and more subtle literature, through the political crises of the early fourteenth century. even if, little or no of this writing used to be actually directed to the king. As David Matthews exhibits, the shape of tackle used to be a rhetorical stance revealing a lot in regards to the place from which writers have been composing, the audiences they needed to arrive, and their development of political and nationwide subjects.

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