Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory

by Catherine Nall

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843242
• ISBN13: 9781843843245
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"