English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century /

English identity and political culture in the fourteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruddick, Andrea, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 93.
Subjects:
National characteristics, English > History > To 1500.
National characteristics, English > Historiography.
Nationalism > England > History > To 1500.
Great Britain > History > 14th century.
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.