 | Adam Usk''s Secret Subjects: Adam of Usk active 1400. Chronicon Adae de Usk A.D. 1377–1412; Adam of Usk active 1400 -- Literary art; Written Communication -- England -- History -- To 1500; Great Britain -- History -- Richard II 1377–1399 -- Historiography; Great Britain -- Hist; Adam Usk, a fifteenth-century professor, royal advisor, schismatic, and spy, wrote a peculiar book in a reticent, nervous prose better suited to keeping secrets than setting them in writing. Steven Justice sets out to find what Usk wanted to hide and comes to surprising conclusions about the foundations of literary and historical study. Steven Justice is Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381. |
