A Farewell to Arms? Criticism of Warfare in Late Fourteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Saul, Nigel.
A Farewell to Arms? Criticism of Warfare in Late Fourteenth-Century England
- Published
- Fourteenth Century England 2: 131-45, 2002.
- Description
- Criticism of warfare at the end of the fourteenth century focused on greed and pride as "evils of the times," rather than on burdens of taxation, an earlier preoccupation. In Sted, Form Age, Mel, and Th, Chaucer's dislike of war is evident, and his concerns are similar to those of his contemporaries--John Gower, Sir John Clanvowe, and others--perhaps as a result of the way warfare was financed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Tale of Melibee.
- Former Age.
- Lak of Stedfastnesse.