Fictions of Advice : The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	The Context for Literature: Public Discourse in the Late Middle Ages	15
	England as a Political Nation	16
	News: Information Exchange and Political Dialogue	22
	Limitations on the King: Deposition and the Memory of Deposition	24
	Limitations on Speech in Parliament	26
	Limitations on Nonparliamentary Speech	31
	The Poets Speak of Silence: The Trope of the Hidden Transcript	36
3	The Secretum Secretorum and the Governance of Kings	39
	The King Governing	40
	Governing the King	44
	Deconstructing the Ideology of Advice	49
4	The Secretum Secretorum in Ireland	55
	Deference and Challenge: Yonge and Ormonde	55
	Ireland "Entremedelid": The Writer, the Patron, and the Patron's Patron	61
5	Council, Counsel, and the Politics of Advice	67
	Still Harping on Advice	68
	Edward II	70
	Edward III	72
	Richard II	79
	Henry IV	85
6	Chaucer's Tale of Melibee: Advice on the King and Advice to the King's Advisers	89
	The Melibee	91
	England in the Late 1380s	99
	Chaucer in the Late 1380s	101
	The Melibee in the Late 1380s	102
	Chaucer in the 1990s	104
7	O Political Grower	108
	The Languages of Advice	110
	The Hermeneutics of Counsel in the Confessio Amantis	113
	The King and His Counsellors	118
	The King and His People	126
	Sad (Hi)Stories of the Deposition of Kings	132
	Appendix on Idioms	134
8	A Mirror for the Prince of Wales: Hoccleve's Regement of Princes	137
	Begging and Advising	139
	Begging as Advising	147
	The Discipline of Advice	150
9	Machiavelli's Prince	160
	The Prince and the Medieval Furstenspiegel: What's New?	161
	The Prince and the Prince	165
	Novelty Again	172
10	Conclusion	174
	Works Cited	189
	Index	205