Title: Hochon's arrow : the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts /
Authors: Strohm, Paul, 1938-
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, Political and social views.; English literature History and criticism; Literature and society England History.; Social problems in literature.; Literature and society England History; Social history; England Social conditions
Contents: False fables and historical truth -- Hochon's arrow -- "A Revelle!": chronicle evidence and the rebel voice -- The textual environment of Chaucer's "Lak of stedfastnesse" -- Saving the appearances: Chaucer's "Purse" and the fabrication of Lancastrian claim -- Queens as intercessors -- Treason in the household -- The textual vicissitudes of Usk's "Appeal" -- The accusations against Thomas Austin, by A.J. Prescott -- The literature of Livery.