Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses 1
6. The De re militari of Vegetius in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 15
7. Heroes of War: Ambroise’s Heroes of the Third Crusade 29
8. Warfare in the Works of Rudolf von Ems 49
9. Chronicling the Hundred Years War in Burgundy and France in the Fifteenth Century 77
10. War and Knighthood in Christine de Pizan’s Livre des faits d’armes et de chevallerie 93
11. Barbour’s Bruce: Compilation in Retrospect 107
12. The Invisible Siege – The Depiction of Warfare in the Poetry of Chaucer 147
13. Warfare and Combat in Le Morte Darthur 169
14. Women and Warfare in Medieval English Writing 187
15. Speaking for the Victim 213
16. Index 233