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Literatures of the Hundred Years War / edited by Daniel Davies and R. D. Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester medieval literature and culture.
- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 386 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Daniel Davies is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston
- R. D. Perry is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver
- Summary:
- From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Genres of war
- 1 Infinite tragedy and the Hundred Years War
- 2 Forms against war
- 3 Prophecies of alliance and enmity
- II Figures and sites of mobility
- 4 Italy, poetry and the Hundred Years War
- 5 Merchandising peace
- 6 Mobility and migration
- III Theorising war
- 7 The shared wound
- 8 Mirrors of war
- 9 Dreaming the (un)divided nation
- IV Lives during wartime
- 10 War, tears, and corporeal response in Christine de Pizan
- 11 Visionary women, the Papal Schism and the Hundred Years War
- 12 Between men
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed October 21, 2024.
- ISBN:
- 9781526142153
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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