Languages Of Power In The Age Of Richard II

"Lynn Staley’s new book is informed by an impressive command of Middle English culture and is chockablock with new insights. Few scholars could of-fer such a rich confrontation of literature and history for this important and distinctive period." —Ralph Hanna, Keble College, Oxford
In this book the distinguished medievalist Lynn Staley turns her attention to one of the most dramatic periods in English history, the reign of Richard II, as seen through a range of texts including literary, political, chronicle, and pictorial.