Forms of Writing, Forms of War: England, Scotland, France c. 1300–1450.
- Author / Editor
- Davies, Daniel.
Forms of Writing, Forms of War: England, Scotland, France c. 1300–1450.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02(E). Freely accessible at https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/59a38ac4-5b08-41e6-a701-26a6f3939e86 (accessed January 30, 2025).
- Physical Description
- x, 317 pp.; illus.
- Description
- Argues that "the nascent art of international relations . . . among England, Scotland, and France, creates a heightened awareness of the connections between literary and political mediation central to the distinct textures of medieval wartime." Explores examples in literary and historical texts and treats Chaucer as an "emblematic figure" of such mediation in various works, especially KnT, MLT, and TC. A version of Chapter 4, “ ‘Wereyed on every side’: Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Logic of Siege Warfare,” was published under the same title in New Medieval Literatures 20 (2020): 74-106.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale