Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy by David John Wallace
Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy
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David John Wallace
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Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy

David John Wallace

578 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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Chaucer's encounters with the great Trecento authors - Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch - facilitate the testing and dismantling of time-honored terms such as medieval, Renaissance, and humanism. The author argues that no magic curtain separated "me...

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