Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Valerie.
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.