Literatures of the Hundred Years War
Daniel Davies editor R D Perry editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:16th Apr '24
Should be back in stock very soon
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 traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
ISBN: 9781526141095
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 24mm
Weight: 630g
408 pages