The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337-1600

An analysis of texts narrating the Hundred Years War, from contemporary accounts to the sixteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction
'When the world woxe old, it woxe warre olde': history, etymology and national identity, 1066-1337
'To destroy and ruin the whole English nation and language': the chronicles of the Hundred Years War
'God gyue you quadenramp!': mimetic language in the war poetry of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
'The brightnesse of braue and glorious words': language and war in the sixteenth century
'Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all': the Hundred Years War on the stage in the 1590s
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Joanna Bellis

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Bellis
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2016
• EAN: 9781843844280
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-428-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism