num_pages: 394
description: These ten specially commissioned essays demonstrate that during the Middle Ages the idea of an English nation was not fixed. The contributors examine and contrast the thinking behind the ways in which medieval philosophers and writers imagined or fantasised about an English nation. The specialised papers are divided into five sections which the theory behind the idea of a `nation'; the idea of a nation united by its common vernacular language, as opposed to Latin; Chaucer's England; Langland's England; England and its neighbours.
language: English
title: Imagining A Medieval English Nation (Volume 37)
titlecomplete: Imagining A Medieval English Nation (Volume 37) (Medieval Cultures)
genres: History, Medieval
ratings_count: 5
series: Medieval Cultures
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press