Writing war : medieval literary responses to warfare / edited by Corrinne Saunders, Françoise Le Saux and Neil Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-

Le Saux, Françoise H. M. (Françoise Hazel Marie), 1957-

Thomas, Neil, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

War in literature.

Military art and science--Europe--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Military art and science.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2004.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0859918432

OCLC:

52766285