| Description |
1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Ser. ; v.119 |
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Region and Nation in England's North-South Divide -- What is Nation? -- Where is the North? -- Damning and Salvific -- Chapters -- Chapter 2 William of Malmesbury, Bede, and the Problem of the North -- The Father of English History? -- Ruinous Preoccupations: The North and Beyond -- Repression and Reckoning -- Chapter 3 The North-South Divide in the Medieval English Universities -- Violence Among the University Nations |
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Australes et Boreales -- Fleeing the Studia -- The University Nations and the English Nation -- Chapter 4 Chaucer's Northern Consciousness in the Reeve's Tale -- Far in the North -- Unsettling Geographies -- The Local and the National: Fabliau and Romance -- Northern Doppelgängers -- Knife, North, and Nation -- Chapter 5 Centralization, Resistance, and the North of England in A Gest of Robyn Hode -- The North and Centralization -- The Sovereign and the Outlaw -- The Greenwood as a ''Zone of Indistinction'' -- ''To London Towne'' |
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Chapter 6 The Towneley Plays, the Pilgrimage of Grace, and Northern Messianism -- Protest and Pilgrimage in the North -- The Towneley Manuscript, ''The Sawley Ballad,'' and Isaiah 14 -- Agrarian Politics in Towneley and the Pilgrimage of Grace -- The Messianic and the Profane, or Lazarus after the Judgment -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: A Medieval and Modern North-South Divide -- Notes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 William of Malmesbury, Bede, and the Problem of the North -- 3 The North-South Divide in the Medieval English Universities -- 4 Chaucer's Northern Consciousness in the Reeve's Tale |
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5 Centralization, Resistance, and the North of England in a Gest of Robyn Hode -- 6 The Towneley Plays, the Pilgrimage of Grace, and Northern Messianism -- 7 Conclusion: A Medieval and Modern North-South Divide -- Works Cited -- Index -- End Series |
| Summary |
Uncovering the medieval origin of England's North-South divide, Joseph Taylor examines the complex dynamics of regionalism and nationalism |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009192279 |
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1009192272 |
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