FW: Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare

 

 

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Posted on: 21 August 2010 21:14
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Subject: Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare

 

Publisher: D.S.Brewer | 2004 | ISBN 0859918432 | PDF | 246 pages | 1 MB War is a powerful and enduring literary topos. Literature of different types, in different periods, and in different countries, engages with the practice of war, and reflects too the cultural attitudes of the period to war. The idea and practice of war is central to some of the most dominant subject matters in the medieval period - as well as to chivalry, to religion, to ideas of nationhood, to concepts of gender, the body and the psyche.

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