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Paperback Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare Book

ISBN: 0268041148

ISBN13: 9780268041144

Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare

(Part of the Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies Series)

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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...

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