English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century

English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century / Dr. Andrea Ruddick, Research Associate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruddick, Andrea, 1978-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 93.
Subjects:
To 1500
National characteristics, English > History > To 1500.
National characteristics, English > Historiography.
Nationalism > England > History > To 1500.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
National characteristics, English
National characteristics, English > Historiography
Nationalism
Nationalbewusstsein
Nationenbildung
Politische Identität
Politische Kultur
Great Britain > History > 14th century.
England
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction I: Historiography
  • Introduction II: Context, sources and methodology
  • England as a territory
  • Defining the English people
  • Englishness: race, ethnicity and national character
  • King, kingdom and people: the idea of England in political rhetoric
  • Nationality, allegiance and subject-hood in the king's wider domains
  • God and England: ecclesiastical rhetoric and a political theory of nationhood.

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