Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship

The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy...
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Author: Kimberly Fonzo
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Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship by Fonzo, Kimberly

Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship

$220.85

Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship

$220.85
Author: Kimberly Fonzo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 Middle English authors. It illuminates the creative ways in which William Langland, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer engaged with prophecy to cultivate their own identities and to speak to the problems of their age.

Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship examines the prophetic reputations of these well-known medieval authors whose fame made them especially subject to nationalist appropriation. Kimberly Fonzo explains that retrospectively co-opting the prophetic voices of canonical authors aids those looking to excuse or endorse key events of national history by implying that they were destined to happen. She challenges the reputations of Langland, Gower, and Chaucer as prophets of the Protestant Reformation, Richard II's deposition, and secular Humanism, respectively.

This intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works successfully makes the case that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in medieval authorial self-representations.



Author: Kimberly Fonzo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 03/22/2022
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781487563479

About the Author
Fonzo, Kimberly: - Kimberly Fonzo is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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