"Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing. This is war as political and economic practice the continuation of politics by other means. The book develops that feeling of war as a very real practical and intellectual problem and shows how a discourse community comes to share its thinking in the processes of translating, annotating, rewriting, and so on. A major contribution to the literary history of the fifteenth century." Professor Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford. Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts but their relationship has hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this book remedies, arguing that the connections are vital to the literary culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much wider scale. Beginning with a detailed consideration of the circulation of one of the most important military manuals in the Middle Ages, Vegetius De re militari, it highlights the importance of considering the activities of a range of fifteenthcentury readers and writers in relation to the wider contemporary military culture. It shows how Englands wars in France and at home, and the wider rhetoric and military thinking those wars generated, not only shaped readers responses to their texts but also...

Binding: Hardcover;208 pages; Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd; Classification: DSBB; Weight: 626 g; Dimensions: 237 x 163 x 22

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