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Lordship and literature : John Gower and the politics of the great household
- Title
- Lordship and literature : John Gower and the politics of the great household / Elliot Kendall.
- Author
- Kendall, Elliot Richard, 1974-
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR1984.C63 K46 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 301 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford English monographs
- Uniform Title
- Oxford English monographs.
- Subject
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408
- Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
- Social networks in literature
- Social exchange in literature
- Social structure in literature
- Aristocracy (Social class) > England > History > To 1500
- Power (Social sciences) > England > History > To 1500
- Social structure > England > History > To 1500
- Households > History > England > To 1500
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-291) and index.
- Contents
- The great household and an economics of power -- The political economy in the late fourteenth century -- Service allegory: the great household in Geniuss confession -- Courtly love and the lordship of Venus -- Women as household exchange in Geniuss tales -- Justice and the affinity -- Retribution as household exchange in Geniuss tales -- Total reciprocity and the problem of kingship.
- ISBN
- 9780199542642 (hbk.)
- 0199542643 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008020969
- 40015758873
- OCLC
- ocn228676624
- 228676624
- SCSB-5424764
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries