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Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England - From Lydgate to Malory (Hardcover, New)
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Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England - From Lydgate to Malory (Hardcover, New)
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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 a
discourse community comes to share its thinking: in the processes
of translating, annotating, rewriting, and so on. A major
contribution to the literary history of thefifteenth century.
Professor Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford. Reading, writing
and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth
century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of
military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military
concerns into a huge corpus of texts; but their relationship has
hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this
book remedies, arguing that the connections are vital to the
literary culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much
wider scale. Beginning with a detailed consideration of the
circulation of one of the most important military manuals in the
Middle Ages, Vegetius' De re militari, it highlights the importance
of considering the activities of a range of fifteenth-century
readers and writers in relation to the wider contemporary military
culture. It shows how England's wars in France and at home, and the
wider rhetoric and military thinking those wars generated, not only
shaped readers' responses to their texts but also gave rise to the
production of one of the most elaborate, rich and under-recognised
pieces of verse of the Wars of the Roses in the form of Knyghthode
and Bataile. It also indicates how the structure, language and
meaning of canonical texts, including those by Lydgate and Malory,
were determined by the military culture of the period. Catherine
Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway,
University of London.
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