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Paul Strohm; with an appendix by A. J. Prescott.
Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts.
Publisher: Princeton U.P., 1992.
ISBN 0691068801.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 158×240×22mm.
Page count: xii,205pp.
Main language: English; some quotations & texts from other languages given without translation.
Overall condition good: this is an unused copy, but shows evidence of extended storage: boards starting to fade, some small spots and marks on the page edges, etc.

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[Publisher lists this item as out of print]
Weight without packaging: 557g.

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Contents:
Intro. — false fables & historical truth;
Hochon’s arrow;
“A revelle!” — chronicle evidence & the rebel voice;
Textual environment of Chaucer’s “Lak of Stedfastnesse”;
Saving the appearances — Chaucer’s “Purse” & fabrication of the Lancastrian claim;
Queens as intercessors;
Treason in the household;
Textual vicissitudes of Usk’s “Appeal”.
Appendices: Accusations against Thomas Austin, by A. J. Prescott; The literature of livery.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

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