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• W2765791569 abstract "R EVIEWS Judith Ferster, Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 216 pp. Judith Ferster’s Fictions of Advice argues for a rereading of medieval mirrors for princes, against their traditional characterization as repetitive, platitudinous moral tracts. Much as David Lawton’s well-known article on dullness did for the fifteenth century, 5 Ferster aims to ‘historicize’ the function of books of advice as conscious attempts at couching dangerous political criticism in the safer language of moral platitudes. In other words, she proposes to look at the manuals for their hermeneutical value, as instances of what.by way of Annabel Patterson’s 1984 study, Censorship and Interpretation she calls “public discourse.” 6 Ferster’s introductory chapter sets up the book’s most general aim: to refute Stephen Greenblatt’s Foucauldian theory of ideology as a monolithic entity that produces its own ‘resistance’ in order to reincorporate it within its all-encompassing structure. She suggests, concerning the later Middle Ages, what Patterson argued regarding the early-modern period in England, that censorship allows for and actually enables “the possibility of opposition.” (p. 5) If Ferster’s study is ultimately unsatisfying, it is because it sometimes relies on a version of Patterson’s argument, without really making its own argument entirely clear. The related issues of censorship, advice, and political initiative in late-medieval England are fascinating ones, and Ferster presents her material clearly. She begins with the ninth-century Arabic pseudo-Aristotelian manual for princes, translated into Latin as the Secretum Secretorum, one that she takes as prototypical of the genre. The tract was translated several times in the following six centuries, both into Latin and into European vernaculars, forming the basis for, most famously, Book 7 of Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and less directly, according to characteristics common to the genre, for Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee. The chronology here is crucial: the period in between the Secretum’s original composition and its later redactions is generally characterized by scholars as a period of gradual decline in the power of the European monarchy as an institution; that decline is seen to culminate in, among other things, the rise of parliaments and the concomitant establishment, in England, of the Commons as a political force. In this regard, Ferster presents medieval England as a centralized entity, with the Commons representing the nation as a whole, first in the persons of the baronial magnates, in the time of King John and Magna Carta, and by the fourteenth century in the persons of the gentry or lesser landowners. It is around these political issues that the main argument of Fictions of Advice coalesces. Ferster maintains that the developing conflict between the institutions of monarchy and republican government were dictated by “struggles over advice,” leading eventually to the establishment of limited monarchy in England. Ferster’s argument is a useful and interesting one, especially as a way of conceptualizing the increasing references to counsel in medieval English literature after Geoffrey of Monmouth. The link to the Secretum is, however, sometimes less than explicit, “Dullness and the Fifteenth Century,” English Literary History 54 (1987): 761–799. and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England (Madison, 1984). 6 Censorship" @default.
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• W2765791569 title "Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England (review)" @default.
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