Parliament and literature in late medieval England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Giancarlo, Matthew, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:	Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
Subjects:	English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > To 1500. Political poetry, English > History and criticism. Representative government and representation in literature. Great Britain. > Parliament > History > To 1500. Constitutional history > England. Representative government and representation > England > History. Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Political and social views. Gower, John, > 1325?-1408 > Political and social views. Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Political and social views.
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Table of Contents:

Parliament and voice in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Parliament, criticism, and complaint in the later fourteenth century
Property, purchase, parliament : the estates of man in John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme and Cronica tripertita
"Oure is the voys" : Chaucer's parliaments and the mediation of community
Parliament, Piers Plowman and the reform of the public voice
Petitioning for show : complaint and the parliamentary voice, 1401-1414.