Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare

by Paul Strohm

Book Overview

In this book Paul Strohm shifts his recognized talent for textual and cultural analysis to the later fifteenth century, arguing that England experienced its own "pre-Machiavellian" moment between 1450 and 1485. These turbulent decades encouraged new pragmatic discussions of political policies of a sort not previously seen and not to be seen again until the middle of the sixteenth century. Strohm contends that England had no need to await the writings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268041148
• ISBN13: 9780268041144
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"