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Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory
Catherine Nall
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Description for Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory
Hardback. An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing. This is war as political and economic practice - the continuation of politics by other means. The book develops that feeling of war as avery real practical and intellectual problem and shows how a discourse community comes to share its thinking: in the processes of translating, annotating, rewriting, and so on. A major contribution to the literary history of thefifteenth century. ... Read more
An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing. This is war as political and economic practice - the continuation of politics by other means. The book develops that feeling of war as avery real practical and intellectual problem and shows how a discourse community comes to share its thinking: in the processes of translating, annotating, rewriting, and so on. A major contribution to the literary history of thefifteenth century. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843843245
SKU
V9781843843245
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Reviews for Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory
Well researched and thought provoking.
SPECULUM
Wide-ranging and engagingly argued, and will appeal to scholars of literature, cultural history and book history alike.
REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
A deeply founded, perceptive, and clear study of the close engagement of English literary culture with the military mentality of the late Middle Ages, a book that connects and ... Read more
SPECULUM
Wide-ranging and engagingly argued, and will appeal to scholars of literature, cultural history and book history alike.
REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
A deeply founded, perceptive, and clear study of the close engagement of English literary culture with the military mentality of the late Middle Ages, a book that connects and ... Read more