{"product_id":"hoccleves-iregiment-of-princesi-counsel-and-constraint-9780859916318","title":"Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes: Counsel and Constraint","description":"\u003cb\u003eHoccleve, often considerd conventional and naive, is shown to be deeply engaged in the political and literary currents of his time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 'new' new historicist shift from a Foucauldian modelling of the infinitely malleable instrumentation of power, in which writers like Hoccleve are inevitably complicit, to a more flexible model in which authority is typically anxious and unstable, open to compromise and negotiation, and where writers can mak significant interventions, is welcome. Perkins's book is a triumph of this new approach. MEDIUM AEVUM [Derek Pearsall]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book-length study of Hoccleve's \u003ci\u003eRegiment of Princes\u003c\/i\u003e. It is an excellent one; critically alert and sensitive to the potential of a variety of fruitful approaches to Hoccleve'smajor poem.... helpfully contextualises Hoccleve's poem in a far more comprehensive way than previously... combines critical and scholarly acumen to give us a book that will be the necessary departure for any future study of \u003ci\u003eThe Regiment of Princes\u003c\/i\u003e. A.S.G. EDWARDS, NOTES AND QUERIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Thomas Hoccleve's politics and poetics have often been viewed as conventional, servile and naive. In the first book-length study of Hoccleve's major poem,Nicholas Perkins argues that \u003ci\u003eThe Regiment of Princes\u003c\/i\u003e is in fact deeply engaged in the political and literary currents of the early fifteenth century, combining the elaborate deference of a petition, the resistance of a complaint and the monitory authority of a \u003ci\u003especulum principis\u003c\/i\u003e in its address to the future Henry V. Perkins sets the \u003ci\u003eRegiment\u003c\/i\u003e's production within a late-medieval economy of advisory speech, reassesses the poem's relationship to the Latin treatises on which it draws, and examines its hermeneutics of royal counsel, which challenges the prince to interpret and act on the advice he receives. Using evidence from the \u003ci\u003eRegiment\u003c\/i\u003e's many manuscripts,he then reveals how Hoccleve's poem was refashioned for new audiences beyond the Lancastrian court in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   NICHOLAS PERKINS teaches at St Hugh's College, Oxford.","brand":"Nicholas Perkins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280572100859,"sku":"9780859916318","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859916318.jpg?v=1772483212","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/hoccleves-iregiment-of-princesi-counsel-and-constraint-9780859916318","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}