Lordship and Literature John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household 1st Edition by Elliot Kendall ISBN 9780191562198 019156219X

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ISBN 10: 019156219X
ISBN 13: 9780191562198
Author: Elliot Kendall 

Lordship and Literature John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Great Household and an Economics of Power

The Late Medieval Great Household

Models of Lordship

2. The Political Economy in the Late Fourteenth Century

Reciprocal Lordship and Centralization

Gower’s Kentish Group and the Coup of 1388

Royal Magnificence

Economic Crisis

3. Service Allegory: The Great Household in Genius’s Confession

The Magnificent Household of Avarice

The Household of the Interior: Amans Assimilates Genius’s Domestic Discourse

Chamberlain Danger

4. Courtly Love and the Lordship of Venus

The Lover’s Confession and the Limits of Genius

Venus’s Remedy: The Politics of Penance

Magnificent Cupid

5. Women as Household Exchange in Genius’s Tales

Daughters Disenfranchised and Self-Exchanging Women

Medea’s Self-Exchange

Negotiating Female Will and Desire in the Exchange of the Princess of Pentapolis

The Sins of the Fathers: Incest, Negligence, and Magnificence

6. Justice and the Affinity

Justice and the Great Household in the Late Fourteenth Century

Trouthe and Law

The Livery and Maintenance Debate

7. Retribution as Household Exchange in Genius’s Tales

‘And in hir Chambre Prively’: The Household Contours of Retribution in Genius’s Tales

The Place of the Law: Unofficial and Official Justice in Livery and Maintenance Petitions

The Unwritten Community of Worship: Unofficial and Official Justice in Genius’s Tales

‘The Wreeche which Horestes Dede’: An Epitome of Unofficial Retribution

8. Total Reciprocity and the Problem of Kingship

Merciless Pity: Slippage to the Sovereign in Confessio Amantis, Book 7

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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