Hochon's Arrow
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A01=Paul Strohm
Abjection
Admonition
An injury to one is an injury to all
Anti-clericalism
Aristocracy
Augury
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Bastard feudalism
Carnival
Carnivalesque
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Civil disorder
Classical Latin
Coroner
Criticism
Deference
Disparagement
Disputation
E. P. Thompson
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Extortion
Fabricator (intelligence)
False consciousness
Henricus
Historicity
Huckster
Ideology
Impeachment
Jean de Meun
John Northampton
John of Gaunt
Juvenal
Kenneth Burke
Literature
Livery
Maledicta
Medieval Latin
Merciless Parliament
Mortmain
Narration
Narrative
Patrician (ancient Rome)
Peasants' Revolt
Perjury
Persecution
Petitioner
Poetry
Popular culture
Precedent
Prerogative
Proclamation
Prude
Rabelais and His World
Rary
Retinue
Ricardian (Richard III)
Robert Knolles
Savoy Palace
Scrope
Seigneur
Sovereignty
Statute
Symbolic power
The Merchant's Tale
The Offence
The Other Hand
Thomas Salisbury
Tudor London
V.
Ventriloquism
Villein (feudal)
Wat Tyler
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691601861
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"The paradox of the lie that might as well be true," writes Paul Strohm, "must interest anyone who seeks to understand texts in history or the historical influence of texts." In these seven essays, all recent and most published here for the first time, the author examines historical and literary texts from fourteenth-century England. He not only demonstrates the fictionality of narrative and documentary sources, but also argues that these fictions are themselves fully historical. Together the essays institute a dialogue between texts and events that restores historical documents and literary works to their larger environments. Strohm begins by inspecting legal records that accuse Hochon of Liverpool in 1384 of threatening to shoot an arrow at a political adversary urinating against a wall, and shows how the text embodies and interconnects language, social space, and historical interpretation itself.
Throughout his analyses, which cover such topics as Chaucer's verses on the accession of Henry IV, Froissart's account of Queen Philippa interceding for the burghers of Calais, and Thomas Usk's accusations against John Northampton, Strohm alerts us to the distortions of textuality itself while challenging our notions of "invented" and "true." Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
