Against all England : regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656 /
Barrett, Robert W.,1969-
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295) and index.
From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life -- Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays -- Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial -- Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial -- Two shires against all England: regional honor and tudor ambition in the Stanley family romances.
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