Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English cultures

Author(s)

• Baker, Denise Nowakowski
• International Congress on Medieval Studies

Bibliographic Information

Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English cultures

edited by Denise N. Baker

（SUNY series in medieval studies）

State University of New York Press, c2000

• : pbk

Other Title

Inscribing the Hundred Years War in French and English cultures

Note

"International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 8, 1994"--P. ix

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book explores the intersection of the Hundred Years' War and the production of vernacular literature in France and England. Reviewing a range of prominent works that address the war, including those by Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Gower, Langland, and Chaucer, as well as anonymous texts and the records of Joan of Arc's trial, Inscribing the Hundred Years' War In French and English Cultures demonstrates the ways in which late-medieval authors responded to the immediate sociopolitical pressures and participated in the debates about the war. The book also investigates the work literary texts performed in their cultural economy by showing how they influenced the development of French and English national identities. Contributors include John M. Bowers; Ellen C. Caldwell; Susan Crane; Patricia DeMarco; Judith Ferster; Norris Lacy; Anne Lutkus; Earl Jeffrey Richards; Michele Szkilnik; Julia M. Walker; and Robert Yeager.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Denise N. Baker 1. Warmongering in Verse: Les Voeux du Heron Norris J. Lacy 2. Inscribing the Body with Meaning: Chivalric Culture and the Norms of Violence in The Vows of the Heron Patricia DeMarco 3. Meed and the Economics of Chivalry in Piers Plowman Denise N. Baker 4. Chaucer's Tale of Melibee: Contradictions and Context Judith Ferster 5. Chaucer after Retters: The Wartime Origins of English Literature John M. Bowers 6. Politics and the French Language in England during the Hundred Years' War: The Case of John Gower R. F. Yeager 7. The Uncertainty in Defining France as a Nation in the Works of Eustache Deschamps Earl Jeffrey Richards 8. The Political Poetics of the Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc Anne D. Lutkus and Julia M. Walker 9. Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc Susan Crane 10. A Pacifist Utopia: Cleriadus et Meliadice Michelle Szkilnik 11. The Hundred Years' War and National Identity Ellen C. Caldwell List of Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB11600645
• ISBN:
  • 0791447014
  • 0791447022
• LCCN: 00021409
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, NY
• Pages/Volumes: x, 277 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ188
  • DC21 : 820.9/001
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
  • LCSH : English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Literature and the war -- Congresses
  • LCSH : France -- Relations -- England -- Congresses
  • LCSH : England -- Relations -- France -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11157802