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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
… medieval texts. The religious writings of John Lydgate, whose literary texts focused mainly on the lives of saints and historical figures, illustrate one example of the way that Christian canonicity was perpetuated and disseminated.In this thesis I establish how the canon is created and in …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… text. The final chapter turns to the works of John Lydgate to show how he incorporated the schoolroom’s emphasis on the diversity of ordinary human experience into his influential Fall of Princes, thereby spreading grammar school lessons to new audiences. Appreciating the teachings of the …
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Misreading English meter : 1400-1514
… specific acts of reception by poets: those of John Walton, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. I conclude the dissertation by tracing the influence of Hoccleve and Lydgate on the later fifteenth-century poets George Ashby, Osbern Bokenham, and John Metham, and by identifying the eclipse of …