The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337–1600.

Author / Editor
Bellis, Joanna.

Title
The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337–1600.

Published
Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2016.

Physical Description
xii, 300 pp.

Description
Examines the narrative and linguistic effects of the Hundred Years War, and claims that the war functions similarly to the Conquest of 1066 as an event that shapes a relationship between word and war and emphasizes the mimetic relationship between text and martial context. Chapter 3, "'God gyue you quaderamp!': Mimetic Language in the War Poetry of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries" (pp. 101-163), defines Chaucer as the founder of a "self-conscious vernacular poetic tradition" because of his "association with Englishness."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism