Writing war : medieval literary responses to warfare /

War is a powerful and enduring literary topos, a repeated theme in both secular and religious literary genres of the middle ages. The idea and practice of war is central to some of the most dominant subject matters in the medieval period - as well as to chivalry, to religion, to ideas of nationhood,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-, Le Saux, Françoise H. M. (Françoise Hazel Marie), 1957-, Thomas, Neil, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2004.
Temas:
500-1500
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
War in literature.
Military art and science > Europe > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Art et science militaires > Europe > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Literature, Medieval
Military art and science > Medieval
War in literature
Geschichtsschreibung
Literatur
Krieg > Motiv
Krieg
Oorlogvoering.
Letterkunde.
Europe
Europa
Durham <2001>
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The De re militari of Vegetius in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Christopher Allmand
  • Heroes of war : Ambroises's heroes of the Third Crusade / Marianne J. Ailes
  • Warfare in the works of Rudolf Von Ems / W.H. Jackson
  • Chronicling the Hundred Years War in Burgundy and France in the fifteenth century / Georges Le Brusque
  • War and knighthood in Christine de Pizan's Livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie / Françoise Le Saux
  • Barbour's Bruce: compilation in retrospect / Thea Summerfield
  • 'Peace is good after war': the narrative seasons of English Arthurian tradition / Andrew Lynch
  • The invisible siege: the depiction of warfare in the poetry of Chaucer / Simon Meecham-Jones
  • Warfare and combat in Le morte Darthur / K.S. Whetter
  • Women and warfare in medieval English writing / Corinne Saunders
  • Speaking for the victim / Helen Cooper.

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