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The medieval siege : theme and image in Middle English romance /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hebron, Malcolm
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series:Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:
Romances, English > History and criticism.
Sieges in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Military history, Medieval, in literature.
Siege warfare > History.
Allegory.
Table of Contents:
  • The prose siege of Thebes, military manuals and the conduct of sieges in the later Middle Ages
  • Historical sieges in fourteenth-century literature: the siege commander
  • Sieges and salvation: heroic defences at Rhodes and Belgrade and The sege of Melayne
  • Troy: treason and tragedy
  • The siege of Jerusalem
  • Allegorical sieges.