Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory

by Catherine Nall

"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 a very 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843242
• ISBN13: 9781843843245
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"