The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 67)

x, 192pp. In black cloth boards with gilt lettering and decorations on spine (cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (mildly shelf worn, very slightly bumped at spine head). A study of the political language and literature of the early Lancastrian period, particularly the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V and the deposition of Richard II which created new expectations of Kingship itself; and providing a new understanding of how political language functioned in the late medieval period. 8vo.