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| Introduction | 1 | |
| The De re militari of Vegetius in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | 15 | |
| Heroes of war : Ambroises's heroes of the Third Crusade | 29 | |
| Warfare in the works of Rudolf von Ems | 49 | |
| Chronicling the Hundred Years War in Burgundy and France in the fifteen century | 77 | |
| War and knighthood in Christine de Pizan's Livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie | 93 | |
| Barbour's Bruce : compilation in retrospect | 107 | |
| 'Peace is good after war' : the narrative seasons of English Arthurian tradition | 127 | |
| The invisible siege - the depiction of warfare in the poetry of Chaucer | 147 | |
| Warfare and combat in Le Morte Darthur | 69 | |
| Women and warfare in medieval English writing | 187 | |
| Speaking for the victim | 213 | |
| Index | 233 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Ann Baldwin
reviewed Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare on October 18, 2012
Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare
Note: This is really a 2.5 but I'm rounding up since I like history.
This book is an interesting and provocative attempt to examine and explain the Roman idea of honor. The book is not your usual history. It is more of an attempt to study how the Romans felt and what they believed about honor and why honor was important to them. It is very well footnoted and has a lot of supporting documentation. The book does a very good job of examining the changes from the late Republic period to the early Empire. I really enjoyed all the Latin which I haven't read in years. There were lots of interesting insights and thought provoking themes. Unfortunately, for me, the flaws were too many to give it a very high review. There are too many unsupported assertions, logic errors and confusing off topic tangents. As much as I enjoyed reading some of this, I would only recommend this to someone interested in reading a speculative view of Roman ideas of honor, shame, etc.. The conclusion parts of the book aren't as good as some of the earlier parts. It's a shame, really, because there is a lot of good stuff but it just doesn't hold together.
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