The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: `Worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth—century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected — which this book remedies. Following the texts,rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors' participation in a previously unrecognized discursive field that s...