The Trojan mirror : Middle English narratives of Troy as books of princely advice / Wtastaw Witalisz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witalisz, Władysław.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in English medieval language and literature ; Bd. 29.

Studies in English medieval language and literature ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Middle English.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

224 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Middle English narratives of Troy as books of princely advice

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, [2011]

Summary:

The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues of contemporary politics and morality. The medieval stories of the fall of Troy are viewed as educational texts offering advice on moral and political conduct related in their aims to the genre of the medieval speculum. Four major verse narratives of the history of the Trojan War composed in Middle English at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century are discussed: the anonymous Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy, the Laud Troy Book, the Seege of Troye and John Lydgate's Troy Book. -- Back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction

- 2. The literary transmission of Troy

- 3. Speculum historiae

- 4. Speculum principis

- 5. Speculum civitatis or the art of peaceful governance

Conclusions.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783631605936

3631605935

OCLC:

706850932