Peter Idley: "Instructions to His Son"

(Liber consolationis et consilii)

AvMatthew Giancarlo

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies

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An updated edition of the works of an important poet whose career spanned the Wars of the Roses. Peter Idley’s poetry provides a unique window into the dynamics of art, civil society, religion, gender, and politics during a tumultuous and transitional period in English history. Based on newly discovered manuscripts and updated scholarship, this edition provides over 1700 lines of previously unedited English poetry; the text of Idley’s extensive Latin citations; and newly identified sources for Idley’s work. This edition also provides an updated critical apparatus for scholarly reference. Idley’s work survives in ten manuscripts, all of them highly variable, which give direct testimony to the diversity of his popularity. He worked and wrote in the environs of the powerful Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and his poetry circulated in the female religious community at Syon Abbey; magnate collections in the north and in Ireland; merchant households; and later Tudor and seventeenth-century literary collections. Peter Idley: Instructions to His Son provides new access to this valuable and understudied resource for understanding the culture of late medieval England as it moved into the early modern era.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-05
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Antal sidor:800
Förlag:Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
ISBN:9780866989794

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Matthew Giancarlo is professor of English and affiliated professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England, as well as numerous articles and reviews on medieval literature, history, culture, and historiography. Since 2019, he has been the Middle English editor of The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1998.

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Introduction to Peter Idley’s “Instructions to His Son” (Liber consolationis et consilii): a liminal text in a liminal time1. Scope, sources, and date of the “Instructions to His Son”2. Biography and background of Peter Idley, esq.3. Earlier editions of the “Instructions”4. Scope and relations of the manuscripts: Part I, Part II5. Choice of manuscripts for this edition6. Idley’s poetic practice7. Presentation of the text in this editionAppendix A: Manuscripts of the “Instructions”Appendix B: Line inventories for manuscripts A1 A2 D and PAppendix C: Inventory of lines taken from John Lydgate’s Fall of PrincesBibliographyThe “Instructions to His Son” (Liber consolationis et consilii)Part I: Liber consolationis et consilii lines I. 1-1460Part II.A: Ten Commandments II.A 1-3008Part II.B: Seven Deadly Sins II.B 1-3059Part II.C: Sacrilege, The Sacraments, Confession II.C 1-1986Appendix D: Spurious lines from Manuscript P 1-98CommentaryPart IPart II.APart II.BPart II.CSelected VariantsPart IPart II.APart II.BPart II.C