By Clementine Oliver
A few sixty years earlier than the appearance of the printing press, the 1st political pamphlets approximately parliament circulated within the urban of London. frequently vitriolic and satirical, those handwritten pamphlets said on a trilogy of parliamentary victories opposed to the crown often called the nice, the fantastic, and the cruel Parliaments. the 1st pamphlets element to the life of a marketplace of readers hungry for information of parliament in addition to to the emergence of public opinion as a political strength. This ebook reconstructs the lives of the political pamphleteers in addition to the political panorama of overdue fourteenth-century England, giving specific emphasis to the big crew of bureaucrats dwelling in London to which Geoffrey Chaucer belonged.
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Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering, p. 9, cites P. L. Hughes and J. F. Larkin, Tudor Royal Proclamations, 3 vols. (London, 1964–69), III, 13–17. Strohm, Theory and the Premodern Text, pp. 3–19. 27 Parliament and Political Pamphleteering in Fourteenth-Century England against the accused as the inevitable consequence of unchecked greed. 82 Their story begins with the Good Parliament. 82 Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern England, pp. 151, 202. 28 CHAPTER TWO The Good Parliament and the First Political Pamphlet It was desperation that drove the government in 1376 to call parliament into session after a hiatus of some two years, for the crown was strapped with debt and this was the only way to raise the money required to continue the war against the French.
122–6. J. Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Â�Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge MA, 1989), pp. 2–27. See also Habermas, ‘The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964)’, New German Critique 3 (1974), 49–55. 24 Where do Pamphlets Come From? fourteenth century England first requires detaching the category of public opinion from its dependence on the socio-economic class of the bourgeoisie as well as from the eighteenth-century marketplace of print.
299–317 (pp. 311–12). 20 Where do Pamphlets Come From? 58 Indeed the very names these writers attached to these three parliaments attest to their newsworthiness, for the designations ‘Good’, ‘Wonderful’ and ‘Merciless’ likely were common currency among the chattering classes before they were written in ink. 59 Thus for these twelve years parliament was news, the trials capturing the interest of the public as never before and compelling chroniclers (but not chroniclers alone) to break their longstanding silence and report on the proceedings for their readers.
