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Author Nall Catherine

Title Reading and war in fifteenth-century England, from Lydgate to Malory / Catherine Nall
Published Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Reading Vegetius in Fifteenth-Century England -- 2. Reading and War in the Aftermath of Defeat -- 3. Making War: the Martial Endeavours of John Lydgate and Henry V -- 4. Sacralising Warfare in Knyghthode and Bataile -- 5. Malory's Morte Darthur and the Rhetoric of War
Summary 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
Notes Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Criticism and interpretation
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? fast (OCoLC)fst00043943
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century fast (OCoLC)fst01832552
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius 383-450 Epitoma rei militaris gnd
Subject War in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Rezeption
War in literature.
Literatur
Mittelenglisch
Krieg Motiv
Leesen
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846159770
1846159776
1283522438
9781283522434
Other Titles From Lydgate to Malory