Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England

Author / Editor
Allen, Valerie.

Title
Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England

Published
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 35-52.

Description
Allen explores the showiness and ideology of tournaments in late medieval England, not only for knights but also for archers, focusing on Roger Ascham's "Toxophilus" for information about the latter. Allen comments on Chaucer's GP Yeoman as an absent presence.

Alternative Title
Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.