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Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare
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Essays consider the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature.
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 medievalperiod - as well as to chivalry, to religion, to ideas of nationhood, to concepts of gender, the body and the psyche. This book considers the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature, beginning with a consideration of ideal military practice and the reception of Vegetius, contrasted with Christine de Pisan's treatise on warfare. The collection then turns to chronicling war, particularly in France, Germany and Scotland, and also covers the fictions of war, as presented in English Arthurian narratives, Chaucer, Malory, and pastoral poetry. It concludes with an examination of attitudes to women in warfare.
Contributors: MARIANNE AILES, CHRISTOPHERALLMAND, GEORGES LE BRUSQUE, HELEN COOPER, HARRY JACKSON, ANDREW LYNCH, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, CORINNE SAUNDERS, FRANCOISE LE SAUX, THEA SUMMERFIELD, NEIL E. THOMAS, KEVIN S. WHETTER.
CORINNE SAUNDERS and NEIL THOMAS are in the department of English Studies, University of Durham; FRANCOISE LE SAUX is in the department of French at the University of Reading.
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 medievalperiod - as well as to chivalry, to religion, to ideas of nationhood, to concepts of gender, the body and the psyche. This book considers the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature, beginning with a consideration of ideal military practice and the reception of Vegetius, contrasted with Christine de Pisan's treatise on warfare. The collection then turns to chronicling war, particularly in France, Germany and Scotland, and also covers the fictions of war, as presented in English Arthurian narratives, Chaucer, Malory, and pastoral poetry. It concludes with an examination of attitudes to women in warfare.
Contributors: MARIANNE AILES, CHRISTOPHERALLMAND, GEORGES LE BRUSQUE, HELEN COOPER, HARRY JACKSON, ANDREW LYNCH, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, CORINNE SAUNDERS, FRANCOISE LE SAUX, THEA SUMMERFIELD, NEIL E. THOMAS, KEVIN S. WHETTER.
CORINNE SAUNDERS and NEIL THOMAS are in the department of English Studies, University of Durham; FRANCOISE LE SAUX is in the department of French at the University of Reading.
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Contributor: Corinne Saunders
Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.
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Contributor: Corinne Saunders
Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.
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Contributor: K S Whetter
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.
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Contributor: Marianne Ailes
MARIANNE AILES is Professor of French at the University of Bristol.
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Introduction: Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses
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The De re militari of Vegetius in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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Heroes of War: Ambroise’s Heroes of the Third Crusade
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Warfare in the Works of Rudolf von Ems
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Chronicling the Hundred Years War in Burgundy and France in the Fifteenth Century
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War and Knighthood in Christine de Pizan’s Livre des faits d’armes et de chevallerie
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Barbour’s Bruce: Compilation in Retrospect
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The Invisible Siege – The Depiction of Warfare in the Poetry of Chaucer
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Warfare and Combat in Le Morte Darthur
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Women and Warfare in Medieval English Writing
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Speaking for the Victim
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Index
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Keywords for this book
medieval literature; war literature; medieval warfare; literary responses to war; medieval authors; medieval narratives; medieval poetry; medieval chronicling; medieval war narratives; medieval France; medieval Germany; medieval England; medieval Scotland; medieval chivalry; medieval gender roles; medieval religion; medieval society
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