The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems

Linne R. Mooney, Mary-Jo Arn (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2005 | New edition
Medieval Institute Publications (Verlag)
978-1-58044-093-6 (ISBN)

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Reflects the wide scope of these "prison poems" by bringing together a new edition of "The Kingis Quair," a selection from Charles d'Orleans' "Fortunes Stabilnes," a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about physical and/or emotional imprisonment.

Prison poems, texts written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment, flourished in the fifteenth century. This edition compiles five such poems, all of which draw on Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, the sixth-century philosophical treatise that preached against fickle Fortune and for the constancy of God. James I of Scotland and Charles D’Orleans—both royalty captured by political rivals—follow a Boethian trajectory in their poems (the Older Scots Kingis Quair and Middle English Fortunes Stabilnes, respectively), though they situate themselves as prisoners to love. George Ashby, a government clerk imprisoned for an unknown reason, pleads in his Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet 1463 for patience and purification of the soul against the vicissitudes of Fortune. Taken together, these poems consider prison not only as a physical condition but also as a literary trope that allows for both complaint and empowerment, providing avenues for escape through the pursuit of love, religious faith, or intellectual contemplation.

Linne R. Mooney is Professor of medieval English palaeography at the University of York. She is primarily interested in Chaucer and other writers of his era. Mary-Jo Arn is an independent scholar based in Boston. She is the former book review managing editor at Speculum.

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James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair

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Charles d'Orleans, Fortunes Stabilnes

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George Ashby, Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet 1463

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Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2005
Reihe/Serie	TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-58044-093-2 / 1580440932
ISBN-13	978-1-58044-093-6 / 9781580440936
Zustand	Neuware