The Later Middle Ages
Subtitle: a sourcebook
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780230551367
Description: "More than a hundred primary documents offer students of later medieval English literature, society, and history intriguing original perspectives through which to understand the literary texts of the period 1350-1500 as well as the culture which created and received them. Complete with a substantial introduction, annotations and a timeline"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Series Editor's Preface; title: Chronology; title: Introduction; title: The English Languages; title: Spiritual Affirmations, Aspirations and Anxieties; title: Violence and the Work of Chivalry; title: Uses of the Past: Authorizing the present and shaping the future; title: Scientia--Knowledge, practical and theoretical; title: Book Production, Audience and Reception; title: Producing and Exchanging: The world of manors and towns; title: Polity and Governance, Unity and Disunity; title: Notes; title: Further Reading