Joanna Bellis

The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337-1600

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781843844280
• ISBN-10: 1843844281
• Artikelnr.: 43674523

Autorenporträt

Joanna Bellis

Inhaltsangabe

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