Violent Compassion in Late Medieval Writing.
- Author / Editor
- Nall, Catherine.
Violent Compassion in Late Medieval Writing.
- Published
- Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, and Katrina O’Loughlin, eds. Writing War in Britain and France, 1370–1854: A History of Emotions (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 73-88.
- Description
- Explores the theme of knightly and royal pity (and related concepts, such as mercy, compassion, and resulting actions) in literary representations of war in a range of late medieval English texts, with particular attention to the Alliterative "Morte Arthure," Malory's adaptation of it, and KnT, addressing Theseus's "compassionate pity" in the latter, along with its ironies and the physiology of pity as liquid.
- Contributor
- Lynch, Andrew, ed.
O’Loughlin, Katrina, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Writing War in Britain and France, 1370–1854: A History of Emotions
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale