John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture

by Maura Nolan

Book Overview

During the fifteenth century John Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an elite London readership that was historically very small, but that saw itself as dominating the cultural life of the nation. Thus the new literary forms and modes developed by Lydgate and his contemporaries helped shape the development of English public culture in the fifteenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521115000
• ISBN13: 9780521115001
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"