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Literatures of the hundred years war /

From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While tradit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davies, Daniel (Editor), Perry, R. D., 1979- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.
Series:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.
Literature, Medieval.
Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453.
Littérature médiévale.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I Genres of war
  • 1 Infinite tragedy and the Hundred Years War
  • 2 Forms against war
  • 3 Prophecies of alliance and enmity
  • II Figures and sites of mobility
  • 4 Italy, poetry and the Hundred Years War
  • 5 Merchandising peace
  • 6 Mobility and migration
  • III Theorising war
  • 7 The shared wound
  • 8 Mirrors of war
  • 9 Dreaming the (un)divided nation
  • IV Lives during wartime
  • 10 War, tears, and corporeal response in Christine de Pizan
  • 11 Visionary women, the Papal Schism and the Hundred Years War
  • 12 Between men
  • Bibliography
  • Index