The Image of Edward the Black Prince in Georgian and Victorian England: Negotiating the Late Medieval Past

Barbara Gribling

doi:10.1017/9781787440845

The Image of Edward the Black Prince in Georgian and Victorian England

Negotiating the Late Medieval Past

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Barbara Gribling

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2018
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781787440845
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787440845

Subjects:: History, Regional History Before 1500

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During the Georgian and Victorian periods, the fourteenth-century hero Edward the Black Prince became an object of cultural fascination and celebration; he and his battles played an important part in a wider reimagining of the British as a martial people, reinforced by an interest in chivalric character and a burgeoning nationalism. Drawing on a wealth of literature, histories, drama, art and material culture, this book explores the uses of Edward's image in debates about politics, character, war and empire, assessing the contradictory meanings ascribed to the late Middle Ages by groups ranging from royals to radicals. It makes a special claim for the importance of the fourteenth century as a time of heroic virtues, chivalric escapades, royal power and parliamentary development, adding to a growing literature on Georgian uses of the past by exposing an active royal and popular investment in the medieval. Disputing current assumptions that the Middle Ages represented a romanticized and unproblematic past, it shows how this investment was increasingly contested in the Victorian era. Barbara Gribling is an Honorary Fellow in Modern British History at Durham University.

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The Image of Edward the Black Prince in Georgian and Victorian England

Negotiating the Late Medieval Past

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-v

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of illustrations
pp viii-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - Royal Use Of The Black Prince
pp 21-22

1 - Royal associations: heroic character and chivalric ceremony at the court of George III
pp 23-37

2 - Prince George reclaims the heroic? Transition, ambition and domesticity
pp 38-51

3 - Chivalry and politics in Victoria's early reign: art, exhibitions and palace renditions
pp 52-72

Part II - ‘Popular’ uses of the medieval past
pp 73-74

4 - Politics, parliament and the people's prince
pp 75-91

5 - Emulating Edward? Redefining chivalry and character
pp 92-114

6 - Warrior for nation and empire
pp 115-136

Conclusion
pp 137-139

Appendix: A list of Black Prince plays
pp 140-140

Bibliography
pp 141-160

Index
pp 161-171

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