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In England, the fourteenth-century was the last great century of monastic chronicle writing and medieval letters, yet it was also a time that witnessed a new genre of political poetry and produced some of the best descriptions of medieval parliaments known to survive. Taylor here examines the writings of the period as well as the background of chroniclers and poets, the problems they encountered, and the audience for whom they wrote. As England and France were heavily bound by military and cultural affairs, he includes the works of French writers as an important source for English history. Offering a more personal perspective on events than those recorded in governmental documents, this work is a valuable addition to the historiography of the period.
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Jessica Johnsgard
reviewed English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century on November 13, 2016
English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century
Illuminating monograph. Offers a thorough and rich reconstruction of Hesiod's universe: the structure of the poems, the meaning of their inconsistencies, the cosmic dynamic of the male and female, the difference between the divine and the human, the mixing of things, and the eschatological vision.
The Theogeny is the story told from the view from Olympus, a story of progress and consolidation under Zeus. Works and Days is the anthropocentric view. The gods are invisible and cruel. Our world shrinks and crumbles, our cities, our households, our bodies collapse exhausted before the sheer indifference of the cosmos.
With the passing of heroes, the human race can only degenerate from the beasts we were raised from.
Humanity has no hope; the gods watch with bemused interest as we perish under Zeus' guidance. He does not destroy us from anger but to relieve the groaning of mother Earth straining under our weight. To stabilize the cosmos, humankind must perish.
An excellent cosmological take, perhaps even better than Homer.
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