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Article: Imagining a Medieval English Nation.(New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages)(Book review)
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Imagining a Medieval English Nation. Edited by Kathy Lavezzo. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, Medieval Cultures, vol. 37, 2004. xxxiv + 356.
New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages. By Sylvia Federico. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, Medieval Cultures, vol. 36, 2003. xxiv + 207 pages.
At a time when the question of nation-building has become central to the political debate in the United States, Kathy Lavezzo's collection of first-rate essays traces the issues of nationalism, through literary artifacts, back before the eighteenth-century Enlightenment where academic studies have typically begun. ...