Mirror, Mirror: Princely Hermeneutics, Practical Constitutionalism, and the Genres of the EnglishFürstenspiegel

Autor:	Matthew Giancarlo
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature Linguistics and Language Fifteenth Literature and Literary Theory business.industry Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject Constitutionalism Language and Linguistics Politics Sovereignty Genre analysis Hermeneutics Ideology business media_common
Zdroj:	Exemplaria. 27:35-54
ISSN:	1753-3074 1041-2573
DOI:	10.1179/1041257315z.00000000063
Popis:	The “mirror for princes” or Furstenspiegel challenges us to understand how this ostensibly practical and political genre of writing was understood in contemporary contexts, given the ubiquity and variability of its forms over time. This article posits the importance of mirror-texts as constitutional writings, especially in the English fifteenth century. It investigates aspects of Furstenspiegel texts relating to their accretive and “sedimented” qualities, a term that has been used for genre analysis by Fredric Jameson. It explicates the self-representations of mirror-texts as didactic guides that try to educate and to constitute a prince, especially in the works of Thomas Hoccleve and John Fortescue, where the prince is ideologically understood not just as an individual but as a self-authorizing embodiment of the basic principles of law. The analysis concludes by suggesting the broader significance of mirror-texts as a politically foundational genre of sovereignty, both for the times in which they...
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