Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship / / Kimberly Fonzo.
The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Sybil and Merlin: Political Prophecy in the French and English Royal Courts
- 2 William Langland’s Parodic Prophecies
- 3 Henry IV and the Ex Post Facto Construction of a Prophetic John Gower
- 4 The Legacy of “Chaucer’s Prophecy” in The House of Fame
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index